Daniel W. Voorhees

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Daniel W. Voorhees

Daniel Wolsey Voorhees (born September 26, 1827 in Liberty Township , Ohio , † April 10, 1897 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party . From 1861 to 1866 and from 1869 to 1873 he sat for the US state of Indiana in the US House of Representatives . From 1877 to 1897 he represented Indiana in the US Senate .

biography

Voorhees was born in Liberty Township to Stephen Pieter Voorhees and Rachel Elliott. His ancestors include Irish and Dutch people . As a young boy, his parents moved with him to Veedersburg , Indiana. In 1849 he completed his law degree from Indiana Asbury University . He was admitted to the bar in 1850 and practiced in Covington until he moved to Terre Haute in 1857 and continued to practice there.

From 1858 to 1861 he worked in the successor to Alvin Peterson Hovey as United States Attorney for the district of the state of Indiana. In 1860 Voorhees ran for the seat of the 7th constituency of Indiana in the US House of Representatives and won the election. From then on he was a member of parliament until 1866. In 1868 he ran again, this time in the 6th electoral district. This candidacy was also successful. In 1872 he lost his re-election, and in 1873 he left the Congress again. During the Civil War he was Copperhead , opposed to the war and other actions of President Abraham Lincoln .

In 1877, Voorhees was nominated as Senator for the late Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton . He was re-elected four times. In 1896 he was not re-elected. During his tenure as a Senator he was a member of various committees, from 1893 to 1895 even chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Finance . In allusion to his unusual stature, he was called the Tall Sycamore of the Wabash (the Long Sycamore of the Wabash). After the failed re-election, he briefly retired from Washington to Indiana in 1897. He returned to Washington in April 1897 to complete his memoirs, which he hoped would bring him prosperity in the final years of his life. When he died suddenly on April 10, 1897, only three chapters had been completed. Voorhees ended up being so poor that even selling his house couldn't cover the cost of the funeral.

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SURNAME Voorhees, Daniel W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Voorhees, Daniel Wolsey (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Democratic Party politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Liberty Township , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1897
Place of death Washington, DC