John Wesley Hoyt

John Wesley Hoyt

John Wesley Hoyt (* 1831 in Worthington , Franklin County , Ohio ; †  29. May 1912 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician ( Republican Party ) and educator .

Career

Hoyt graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University and graduated from Ohio medical school . In 1857 he moved to Wisconsin , where he was politically active. He was also the manager of the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society and the editor of the Wisconsin Farmer and Northern Cultivator . In 1862 he was agent for the United States and the State of Wisconsin at the International Exhibition in London and then again in 1867 at the Exposition Universelle in Paris . From 1874 to 1876 he was chairman of the Wisconsin State Railway Association .

On April 10, 1878, President Rutherford B. Hayes Hoyt appointed governor of the Wyoming Territory to replace John M. Thayer . He held the office until 1882. Hoyt was a strong supporter of the education system. Under the direction of Secretary of State William Steward , he carried out a large study of education in America and Europe . In 1887 he lived in California for a period and then returned to Wyoming , where he became the first president of the University of Wyoming . He later greatly influenced the creation of a national university.

Web links

• John Wesley Hoyt: Memorial in Regard to a National University. US Government Printing Office, Washington DC, 1892. Accessed Internet Archive (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ TA Larson: History of Wyoming. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln 1990, ISBN 92-64-17123-1 , pp. 133-134 (accessed from Google Books on December 29, 2014).
2. ↑ John Wesley Hoyt 1831-1812 ( Memento of 4 November 2012 at the Internet Archive ). Short biography on the homepage of the Wisconsin Historical Society (in a version dated November 4, 2012).