| LC control no. | no 92030498 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Blackburn, Joseph C. S. (Joseph Clay Stiles), 1838-1918 |
| Variant(s) | Blackburn, Joseph Clay Stiles, 1838-1918 Blackburn, Mr. (Joseph Clay Stiles), 1838-1918 |
| Birth date | 1838-10-01 |
| Death date | 1918-09-12 |
| Place of birth | Woodford County (Ky.) |
| Place of death | Washington (D.C.) |
| Affiliation | Centre College (Danville, Ky. : 1819-1901) Kentucky. General Assembly. House of Representatives United States. Congress. House United States. Congress. Senate United States. Congress. Senate Democratic Party (U.S.) |
| Profession or occupation | Legislators Lawyers |
| Found in | His Demonitization of silver, 1893: t.p. (Joseph C.S. Blackburn) Members of Cong. since 1789, 1977 (Blackburn, Joseph Clay Stiles, D. Ky, Oct. 1, 1838-Sept. 12, 1918; House 1875-85; Senate 1885-97, 1901-07) In the Senate of the United States, 1886?: p. 1 (Mr. Blackburn, from the Committee on Railroads) Biog. dir. of the U.S. Congress, May 16, 2018 (Blackburn, Joseph Clay Stiles, a Representative and a Senator from Kentucky; born near Spring Station, Woodford County, Ky., October 1, 1838; attended Sayres Institute, Frankfort, Ky., and graduated from Centre College, Danville, Ky., in 1857; studied law in Lexington, Ky.; admitted to the bar in 1858 and practiced in Chicago, Ill., until 1860, when he returned to Woodford County, Ky.; entered the Confederate Army as a private in 1861 and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel before the close of the Civil War; settled in Arkansas in 1865, where he was engaged as lawyer and planter in Desha County until 1868, when he returned to Kentucky and opened law offices in Versailles; member, State house of representatives 1871-1875; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1885); chairman, Committee on the District of Columbia (Forty-fifth Congress), Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War (Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses); elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1885; reelected in 1890, and served from March 4, 1885, to March 3, 1897; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1896; chairman, Committee on Rules (Fifty-third Congress); again elected to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1901, to March 3, 1907; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1907; Democratic caucus chairman 1906-1907; appointed Governor of the Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama, by President Theodore Roosevelt on April 1, 1907; resigned in November 1909 and returned to his estate in Woodford County, Ky.; died in Washington, D.C., September 12, 1918; interment in the State Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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