| LC control no. | n 88071852 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Dawes, Henry L. (Henry Laurens), 1816-1903 |
| Variant(s) | Dawes, H. L. (Henry Laurens), 1816-1903 Dawes, Mr. (Henry Laurens), 1816-1903 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1816-10-30 |
| Death date | 1903-02-05 |
| Place of birth | Cummington (Mass.) |
| Place of death | Pittsfield (Mass.) |
| Affiliation | Massachusetts. General Court. Senate United States. Congress. House United States. Congress. Senate Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) United States. Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes Yale College (1718-1887) Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives |
| Profession or occupation | Teachers Newspaper editors Lawyers Legislators Public prosecutors |
| Found in | His The mode of procedure in cases of contested elections, 1869?: p. 13 (Henry L. Dawes) LC in OCLC, 2-17-89 (less than fully authenticated serial hdg.: Dawes, Henry Laurens, 1816-1903; variant: H.L. Dawes) In the Senate of the United States, 1882?: p. 1 (Mr. Dawes, from the Committee on Indian Affairs) Members of Cong. since 1789, 1977 (Dawes, Henry Laurens, R. Mass., Oct. 30, 1816-Feb. 5, 1903; House 1857-75; Senate 1875-93) Bio. dir. of the U.S. Congress website, Jan. 7, 2016 (Dawes, Henry Laurens, a Representative and a Senator from Massachusetts; born in Cummington, Mass., October 30, 1816; attended the common schools and received private instruction in preparatory studies; graduated from Yale College in 1839; became a teacher and edited the Greenfield Gazette and the North Adams Transcript; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1842 and commenced practice in North Adams, Mass.; member, State house of representatives 1848-1849, 1852; member, State senate 1850; member of the State constitutional convention in 1853; district attorney for the western district of Massachusetts 1853-1857; elected to the Thirty-fifth and to the eight succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1875); chairman, Committee on Elections (Thirty-seventh through Fortieth Congresses), Committee on Appropriations (Forty-first Congress), Committee on Ways and Means (Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses); declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1874; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1875; reelected in 1881 and again in 1887, and served from March 4, 1875, to March 3, 1893; declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1893; chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Forty-fifth Congress), Committee on Indian Affairs (Forty-seventh through Fifty-second Congresses); settled in Pittsfield, Mass.; chairman of the commission created to administer the tribal affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians in the Indian Territory 1893-1903; died in Pittsfield, Mass., February 5, 1903; interment in Pittsfield Cemetery) |
| Associated language | eng |
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