| LC control no. | no 95048283 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Gallinger, Jacob H. (Jacob Harold), 1837-1918 |
| Variant(s) | Gallinger, J. H. (Jacob Harold), 1837-1918 Gallinger, Mr. (Jacob Harold), 1837-1918 |
| Birth date | 1837-03-28 |
| Death date | 1918-08-17 |
| Place of birth | Cornwall (Ont.) |
| Place of death | Franklin (N.H.) |
| Affiliation | New Hampshire. General Court. House of Representatives New Hampshire. Constitutional Convention (1876) New Hampshire. General Court. Senate United States. Congress. House New Hampshire. General Court. House of Representatives United States. Congress. Senate Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) |
| Profession or occupation | Legislators Physicians Surgeons Printers |
| Found in | Silver coinage ... 1886: t.p (Jacob H. Gallinger, of New Hampshire) Bio. dir. Am. Con., 1961 (Gallinger, Jacob Harold; b. in Cornwall, Ontario, Canada, Mar. 28, 1837; printer; doctor, practicing in Concord, N.H.; member state house of reps. and state senate; Republican rep. to the 49th-50th Congresses, 1885-1889; U.S. Senator serving from Mar. 4, 1891 until his death in Franklin, N.H., Aug. 17, 1918) OCLC, 10/2/95 (hdgs.: Gallinger, Jacob H. (Jacob Harold), 1837-1918, Gallinger, Jacob Harold, 1837-1918; usage: Jacob H. Gallinger, J. H. Gallinger) Abbie L. Ham, 1888: p. 1 (Mr. Gallinger, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions) Biog. dir. of the U.S. Congress website, November 5, 2015 (Gallinger, Jacob Harold, a Representative and a Senator from New Hampshire; born in Cornwall, Ontario, Canada, March 28, 1837; attended the common schools and completed an academic course; became a printer; studied medicine and graduated from the Cincinnati (Ohio) Medical Institute in 1858; studied abroad for two years; returned to the United States and engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery in Concord, N.H.; member, State house of representatives 1872-1873, 1891; member of the State constitutional convention in 1876; member, State senate 1878-1880; was surgeon general of New Hampshire, with the rank of brigadier general 1879-1880; elected as a Republican to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1889); declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1888; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1891; reelected in 1897, 1903, 1909, and 1914, and served from March 4, 1891, until his death in Franklin, N.H., August 17, 1918; served as President pro tempore during the Sixty-second Congress; Republican Conference chairman (Sixty-third to Sixty-fifth Congresses); chairman, Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard (Fifty-second Congress), Committee on Pensions (Fifty-fourth to Fifty-seventh Congress), Committee on the District of Columbia (Fifty-seventh to Sixty-second Congresses); chairman of the Merchant Marine Commission 1904-1905; interment in Blossom Hill Cemetery, Concord, N.H.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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