John E. Osborne

John E. Osborne

John Eugene Osborne (* 19 June 1858 in Westport , Essex County , New York ; †  24. April 1943 in Rawlins , Wyoming ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party , Governor of the State of Wyoming and a deputy of the House of Representatives of the United States .

biography

After attending school, he completed a degree in medicine at the University of Vermont , which he completed in 1880 with graduation . He then began his professional career as a doctor with the Union Pacific Railroad . An anecdote has come down to us from this period, according to which he had the body of a lynched man soaked in a saline solution in 1881 to peel off the skin so that he could make a pair of shoes out of it. When he was elected governor of the new state of Wyoming in 1892, he is said to have worn these shoes. After settling in Rawlins, he became successful in the drug and ranching industries, eventually becoming the largest sheep farmer in the Wyoming Territory .

He began his political career in 1883 when he was elected a member of the Territorial Assembly ; however, he resigned soon after when he left the territory. After his return, he became in 1888 the chairman of the Commission for the construction of prisons ( Penitentiary Building Commission and appointed) already chosen a year later in 1889 as mayor of Rawlins.

After his election as governor of the state of Wyoming, he was from January 2, 1895 to January 7, 1897 in office and waived re-election despite a nomination by the Democratic Party. Subsequently he was a member of the US House of Representatives from March 1897 to March 1899, but did not run for re-election here either.

Following the election of Woodrow Wilson to the US president he was from 1913 to 1916 29 Assistant Secretary of State (Deputy Foreign Minister) under the Foreign Ministers William Jennings Bryan and Robert Lansing appointed. Until 1917 he was one of the closest employees in the Foreign Ministry. He was most recently Chairman of the Board of Rawlins National Bank .

Web links

• John E. Osborne in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Osborne in WyoHistory.org (English)
• John E. Osborne in the database of the National Governors Association (English)

• John E. Osborne in the database of Find a Grave (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Morris, Craig: "Lynch Mobs, Death Penalty, Torture in the US Military: The Historical Context"
2. ↑ Lynch justice to Big Nose George Parrott. (No longer available online.) In: Carbon County Museum. April 10, 2009, archived from the original on April 4, 2009 ; accessed on June 4, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Rawlins Photos. In: Wyoming Tales and Trails (private collection of historical photographs). January 6, 2004, accessed June 4, 2009 . 
4. ↑ Results of the gubernatorial elections from 1890 to 2002 ( Memento of the original from November 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English).