OVERVIEW:

BORN:
August 26, 1820
Clark County, Illinois

DIED:
October 5, 1899 (age 79)
Mount Pleasant, Iowa

EDUCATION:
DePauw University (BA, 1845)

POLITICAL PARTY:
Whig (Before 1855)
Free Soil (1855–1857)
Republican (1857–1899)

HIGHLIGHTS:
1824:
Moved to Indiana 
1845:
Moved to Iowa City, Iowa
1847:
Superintendent of Public Instruction 
1850:
Admitted to the Bar,
Began Practicing Law in Iowa City, Iowa
Declined Whig Nomination for Iowa Governor 
1853-1855;
President of Iowa Wesleyan University; Mount Pleasant, Iowa
1855-1857:
U.S. Senator (Free Soil-Iowa)
1857-1865:
U.S. Senator (R-Iowa)
1865-1866:
U.S. Secretary of the Interior
1867-1873:
U.S. Senator (R-Iowa)

RESOURCES:
Biographical Directory of Congress
Biographical Dictionary of Iowa
Lehrman Institute
Wikipedia

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