| LC control no. | no 88000131 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Doolittle, James R. (James Rood), 1815-1897 |
| Variant(s) | Doolittle, J. R. (James Rood), 1815-1897 Doolittle, James Rood, 1815-1897 |
| Located | Wisconsin |
| Birth date | 1815-01-03 |
| Death date | 1897-07-23 |
| Place of birth | Hampton (N.Y. : Town) |
| Place of death | Edgewood (R.I.) |
| Affiliation | United States. Congress. Senate Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) |
| Profession or occupation | Lawyers Legislators |
| Found in | OCLC 11873467: His Justification of Commodore Paulding's ... 1858 (hdg.: Doolittle, James Rood, 1815-1897; usage: James R. Doolittle) OCLC data base, 3-21-88 (hdg.: Doolittle, James Rood, 1815-1897; usage: James R. Doolittle; J.R. Doolittle; James Doolittle) Biographical directory of the United States Congress website, viewed November 17, 2022 (Doolittle, James Rood, a Senator from Wisconsin; born in Hampton, N.Y., January 3, 1815; attended the common schools and Middlebury (Vt.) Academy, and graduated from Hobart College, Geneva, N.Y., in 1834; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1837 and commenced practice in Rochester, N.Y.; moved to Warsaw, N.Y., in 1841; district attorney of Wyoming County, N.Y., 1847-1850; moved to Racine, Wis., in 1851; judge of the first judicial circuit of Wisconsin 1853-1856, when he resigned; the repeal of the Missouri Compromise caused him to leave the Democratic Party; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in January 1857; reelected in 1863 and served from March 4, 1857, to March 3, 1869; chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs (Thirty-seventh through Thirty-ninth Congresses); left the Republican Party and was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor on the Democratic ticket in 1871; resumed the practice of law in Chicago, Ill., but retained his residence in Racine, Wis.; trustee of the University of Chicago, serving one year as its president, and was for many years a professor in its law school; died in Edgewood, Providence, R.I., July 23, 1897; interment in Mound Cemetery, Racine, Wis.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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