Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn

Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn (* 1. October 1838 in Spring Station , Woodford County , Kentucky ; † 12. September 1918 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician ( Democratic Party ), of the state of Kentucky in both houses of Congress represented .

Joseph Blackburn was the younger brother of Luke P. Blackburn , who served as governor of Kentucky from 1879 to 1883 . After attending school in Frankfort , he graduated from Center College in Danville in 1857 . He studied law in Lexington and was inducted into the bar in 1858. He worked as a lawyer in Chicago until 1860 before returning to Kentucky and joining the Confederate Army . At the end of the Civil War he held the rank of Lieutenant Colonel .

After the war, Blackburn settled in Arkansas , where he worked as a lawyer and planter in Desha County . In 1868 he moved back to Kentucky and opened a law practice in Versailles .

From 1871 to 1875 Joseph Blackburn was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives before he was elected to the US House of Representatives, where he remained from March 4, 1875 to March 3, 1885 and chaired several committees. He then moved to the Senate within Congress . After re-election in 1890, he was a senator until March 3, 1897; the attempt at re-election failed in 1896. In 1900 he managed to return to this body in the election for the second Senate seat of the state; In 1906 it was voted out again. During his time in Washington, Blackburn also made a name for himself nationally and was one of the possible candidates for the 1896 presidential election .

US President Theodore Roosevelt appointed Blackburn on April 1, 1907 as governor of the Panama Canal Zone . He held this office until his resignation in November 1909.

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SURNAME	Blackburn, Joseph Clay Stiles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician
DATE OF BIRTH	October 1, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH	Spring Station , Kentucky
DATE OF DEATH	September 12, 1918
Place of death	Washington, DC