Dorsey, Stephen Wallace, 1842-1916

LC control no.	no2008127915
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Dorsey, Stephen Wallace, 1842-1916 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Dorsey, Mr. (Stephen Wallace), 1842-1916
Birth date	1842-02-28
Death date	1916-03-20
Place of birth	Benson (Vt.)
Place of death	Los Angeles (Calif.)
Affiliation	United States. Congress. Senate Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Found in	In the Senate of the United States. December 12, 1876, 1876: p. 1 (Mr. Dorsey) LC database, Sept. 3, 2008 (hdg.: Dorsey, Stephen Wallace, 1842-1916; usage not shown; variant: Stephen W. Dorsey) Biog. dir. of the U.S. Cong. online, viewed Sept. 3, 2008 (Dorsey, Stephen Wallace, a Senator from Ark.; b. Feb. 28, 1842; d. Mar. 20, 1916) Biographical directory of the United States Congress website, viewed November 17, 2022 (Dorsey, Stephen Wallace, a Senator from Arkansas; born in Benson, Rutland County, Vt., February 28, 1842; moved to Ohio and settled in Oberlin; attended the public schools; during the Civil War served in the Union Army; returned to Ohio and settled in Sandusky; was employed by the Sandusky Tool Co. and subsequently became its president; elected president of the Arkansas Railway Co.; moved to Arkansas and settled in Helena; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1873, to March 3, 1879; was not a candidate for reelection; chairman, Committee on District of Columbia (Forty-fifth Congress); member of the Republican National Committee in 1880; engaged in cattle raising and mining in New Mexico and Colorado; subsequently moved to Los Angeles, Calif., and resided there until his death on March 20, 1916; interment in Fairmont Cemetery, Denver, Colo.)
Associated language	eng