| LC control no. | n 86145369 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Harlan, James, 1820-1899 |
| Variant(s) | Harlan, Jas. (James), 1820-1899 |
| Birth date | 1820-08-26 |
| Death date | 1899-10-05 |
| Place of birth | Clark County (Ill.) |
| Place of death | Mount Pleasant (Iowa) |
| Affiliation | United States. Congress. Senate United States. Congress. Senate United States. Congress. Senate Free Soil Party (U.S.) Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) |
| Profession or occupation | Legislators |
| Found in | NUCMC data from Sioux City Publ. Mus. for Hubbard, A.W. Papers, 1865-1946 (James Harlan) NUCMC files (Harlan, James, 1820-1899; lawyer, educator; US Sen. from Iowa; Lincoln's Sec. of Interior) DAB (Harlan, James, 1820-1899; US sen; son of Silas & Mary (Conley) Harlan; m. Ann Eliza Peck; promoter of Free-Soil movement) LC manual auth. cd. (hdg.: Harlan, James, 1820-1899) United States. Dept. of the Interior. Warming and ventilating the Capitol, letter from the secretary of the interior, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 4th instant, transmitting a report of T.U. Walter, relative to warming and ventilating both houses of Congress, 1866: p. [1] (Jas. Harlan, Secretary) Biographical directory of the United States Congress website, viewed January 26, 2024: (Harlan James, a Senator from Iowa; born in Clark County, Ill., August 26, 1820; at age four, moved with his family to Indiana; attended the rural schools, assisted his father in farming, and taught school until 1841, when he entered college; graduated from Indiana Asbury (now DePauw) University, Greencastle, Ind., in 1845; moved to Iowa City, Iowa, in 1845; superintendent of public instruction in 1847; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1850 and commenced practice in Iowa City; declined the Whig nomination for Governor of Iowa in 1850; president of Iowa Wesleyan University, Mount Pleasant, Iowa, 1853-1855; elected as a Free Soiler to the United States Senate in 1855, presented his credentials, and took his seat December 31, 1855; owing to irregularities in the legislative proceedings the Senate declared the seat vacant in January 1857; reelected as a Republican to fill the vacancy thus created; reelected in 1860 and served from January 29, 1857, until May 15, 1865, when he resigned to accept a Cabinet portfolio; chairman, Committee on Public Lands (Thirty-seventh through Thirty-ninth Congresses); Secretary of the Interior in the Cabinet of President Andrew Johnson from May 15, 1865, until July 27, 1866, when he resigned; again elected to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1867, to March 3, 1873; chairman, Committee on the District of Columbia (Fortieth Congress), Committee on Education (Fortieth Congress), Committee on Indian Affairs (Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses); delegate to the peace convention held in Washington, D.C., in 1861, in an effort to devise means to prevent the impending war; unsuccessful candidate for the Senate and the governorship; presiding judge of the court of commissioners of Alabama claims 1882-1886; died in Mount Pleasant, Henry County, Iowa, on October 5, 1899; interment in Forest Home Cemetery.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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