Joseph L. Bristow

Joseph L. Bristow

Joseph Little Bristow (born July 22, 1861 in Hazel Green , Wolfe County , Kentucky , †  July 14, 1944 in Fairfax , Virginia ) was an American politician ( Republican Party ) who represented the state of Kansas in the US Senate .

At the age of twelve, Joseph Bristow moved with his father from Kentucky to Fredonia , Kansas, where he attended local schools. In 1886 he graduated from Baker University in Baldwin City ; then he worked until 1890 as a clerk at the Douglas County District Court . That year he entered the newspaper business. He acquired the Daily Republican published in Salina , for which he also worked as an editor until 1895. He then took a position as private secretary from Governor Edmund Morrill , which he held until 1897. He later owned other newspapers with the Ottawa Herald and the Salina Daily Republican Journal .

Bristow was politically active for the first time in 1894 as secretary of the Republican Party Committee of Kansas; he held the same office again in 1898. From 1897 to 1905 he worked under Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt as Fourth Assistant Postmaster General for the federal government. He was finally elected to the US Senate for Kansas in 1908, where he remained from March 4, 1909 to March 3, 1915. During this time he chaired several committees; he was not nominated for re-election by his party.

Bristow then retired. He worked as a farmer on his country estate, Ossian Hall , where he died in July 1944.

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