Jolley, John Lawlor, 1840-1926

LC control no.	n 91123991
Personal name heading	Jolley, John Lawlor, 1840-1926 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Located	Wisconsin
Birth date	1840-07-14
Death date	1926-12-14
Place of birth	Montréal (Québec)
Place of death	Vermillion (S.D.)
Affiliation	Eastman National Business College (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) United States. Army. Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, 23rd (1862-1865) United States. Congress. House
Profession or occupation	Legislators Lawyers Soldiers Mayors
Found in	NUCMC data from Augustana College, Center for Western Studies for His Papers, 1871-1925 (Jolley, John L.; of Vermillion, S.D.; lawyer) Biog. dir. U.S. Congress, 1989 (Jolley, John Lawlor, 1840-1926; b. Quebec; lived Wisconsin; legislator, Dakota Terr./S.D.; mayor, Vermillion, S.D.; U.S. Representative from S.D., 1891-1893) Wikipedia, July 12, 2018 (John Lawlor Jolley (July 14, 1840 - December 14, 1926) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from South Dakota. He was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1840, where he attended the common schools. He graduated from Eastman Business College in Poughkeepsie, New York. He moved to Wisconsin in 1857, and enlisted as a private in Company C, Twenty-third Regiment, of the Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. He was mustered out as a second lieutenant on July 4, 1865. He took up the study of the law and was admitted to the bar in 1866. Vermillion of the Dakota Territory is where he first established his practice. He was a member of the territorial council in 1875 and 1881. In 1887 and 1895, he was elected mayor of Vermillion. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1884. In 1889, he was a delegate to the state constitutional convention. He was also selected for the South Dakota State Senate in 1889. In 1891 he was elected to Seat B, one of South Dakota's two at-large seats in the United States House of Representatives, filling the vacancy caused by the death of John Rankin Gamble. In office December 7, 1891 - March 3, 1893. He chose not to seek a full term, and resumed the practice of law. He died in Vermillion in 1926, and was buried at Vermillion's Bluff View Cemetery) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Jolley>
Associated language	eng