Algernon Sidney Paddock

Algernon Paddock

Algernon Sidney Paddock (born November 9, 1830 in Glens Falls , Warren County , New York , † October 17, 1897 in Beatrice , Nebraska ) was an American politician and United States Senator from Nebraska.

Life

His father, Ira Alden Paddock, was a respected lawyer. Paddock himself visited the Glens Falls Academy and later the Union College in Schenectady to law study. In 1856 he moved to the state of Nebraska, where he bought a farm near Fort Calhoun . Most of the time, however, he lived in Omaha , where he was an associate editor of the Nebraska Republican (later Omaha Republican ) in 1858 and 1859 and practiced as a lawyer. In 1858 he was initially unable to take a place in the House of Representatives of the Nebraska Territory . On December 22, 1859, he married Emma Lucinda Mack, with whom he had five children.

Political career

Paddock was instrumental in the formation of the Republican Party in Nebraska in 1859 and in 1860 he took part in the Republican National Convention , at which Abraham Lincoln was nominated as a candidate for president. For this he ran election campaigns both in Nebraska and in his home state New York. In 1861 he was from Lincoln, presumably on relationships with their friend William H. Seward , the administrator of the Nebraska Territory ( Secretary of the Nebraska Territory appointed). During his term of office, which lasted until the founding of the state of Nebraska in 1867, Algernon Paddock was involved in the organization of the First and Second Volunteer Associations in the Civil War and acted from May 6-15, 1861 as Deputy Governor of Alvin Saunders . He lost both the race for a seat in the 40th United States Congress in 1866 and the election to Senator of Nebraska a year later. Andrew Johnson's offer to become governor of the Wyoming Territory was turned down by Paddock in 1868 because he did not see enough funding to cover the Territorial Government's expenses.

In 1874 he moved to Beatrice, where he devoted himself to agricultural problems. In 1875 he succeeded in entering the US Senate, where he was chairman of the Agriculture Committee in 1877 and 1878. In 1881 he was replaced by Charles Van Wyck as Senator and took over legislative duties in the Utah Territory under US President Chester A. Arthur until 1886 . In the next election, Paddock succeeded in replacing Van Wyck and he began his second term (from March 4, 1887 to March 3, 1893) as a senator. During this time, 328 proposed and supported legislative proposals were raised. He subsequently took over the chairmanship of the Committee on the Improvement of the Mississippi River and Its Tributaries , as well as the Forestry and Agriculture Committee. After his tenure, Paddock devoted himself to stock market trading until his death.

Death and legacy

Algernon Sidney Paddock died in Beatrice on October 17, 1897 and was buried in Prospect Hill Cemetery, Omaha. The hotel ("Paddock-Kensington"), a primary school ("Paddock Lane Elementary") and a township in Gage County and Holt County in Nebraska are still named after him today. As a staunch Republican, he campaigned against the Civil War and introduced many bills to the Senate, some of which are controversial from today's perspective. On August 15, 1876, a law was passed on his bill, which sealed the sale of land that was part of the reservations of the Otoe Indians . These had to move to Oklahoma .

Web links

• Algernon Sidney Paddock in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Article in the New York Times, October 18, 1897 (English).
2. ↑ ^{a b c} New York Times article, January 23, 1875 (English).
3. ^ Jason Kaspar: Omaha Printing Company , 2003 ( Memento January 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (English).
4. ^ Nebraska State Historical Society: Paddock, Algernon S. (English).
5. ^ Nebraska State Historical Society: Algernon Sidney Paddock, 1830-1897 (English).
6. ↑ Algernon Paddocks in the Find a Grave database .