GV Dorsey

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Godwin Volney Dorsey (born November 17, 1812 in Oxford , Ohio , † May 15, 1885 in Piqua , Ohio) was an American doctor and politician . He was Treasurer of State of Ohio from 1862 to 1865 .

Life

Godwin Volney Dorsey was born in Butler County during the British-American War . Nothing is known about his youth. He graduated from Miami University . In 1836 he graduated from the Medical College of Ohio . Then he settled in Piqua (Ohio). The following years were overshadowed by the economic crisis of 1837 and the Mexican-American War .

Dorsey was a member of the Democratic Party at the time . In the presidential election in 1848 he served as the electorate for Lewis Cass and William Orlando Butler . He was a delegate to the Ohio Constituent Assembly in 1850 and in 1856 to the Democratic National Convention . In the congressional elections in 1854 and 1856 , he suffered a defeat each to Matthias H. Nichols in the 4th  Congressional constituency of Ohio. In the first election mentioned, he received only 30% of the vote. His opponent won the following election with 245 votes. 1859 was a candidate for the office of Dorsey Auditor of State but from Ohio, suffered a defeat against the Republican Robert Walker Tayler senior . In the following years he joined the Republican Party. He was elected Treasurer of State of Ohio in 1861 and re-elected in 1863 during the Civil War . He attended the Republican National Convention in 1864. On September 25, 1865, he resigned from his post as treasurer. David Tod was to serve as Elector-at-large for Ulysses S. Grant and Schuyler Colfax in 1868 . He died before the electors could meet, so he was replaced by Dorsey.

Dorsey died in Piqua in 1885 and was buried there in Forest Hill Union Cemetery .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Phi Delta Theta Fraternity: Annual Circular Letters of the ... Active Chapters of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity , Volume 26, Bowman Publishing Company, 1912
  2. ↑ a b Miami County, Ohio - Genealogical Researchers - Godwin Volney Dorsey ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / thetroyhistoricalsociety.org
  3. ^ The History of Miami County, Ohio , Windmill Publications, 1880, p. 456
  4. ^ A b c d Joseph Patterson Smith: History of the Republican Party in Ohio , Volume 1, Lewis Publishing Company, 1898, pp. 27, 65, 95, and 143
  5. ^ William Alexander Taylor and Aubrey Clarence Taylor: Ohio Statesmen and Annals of Progress , Press of the Westbote Company, 1899, p. 255
  6. ^ Wikoff, Allen T .: Annual Report , Nevins & Myers, State Printers, 1875, p. 12
  7. ↑ James Grant Wilson and John Fiske: Godwin Volney Dorsey , Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, 1900
  8. ^ GV Dorsey in the Find A Grave database
personal data
SURNAME Dorsey, GV
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dorsey, Godwin Volney (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American doctor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Oxford , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1885
Place of death Piqua , Ohio