Joseph N. Dolph

Joseph N. Dolph

Joseph Norton Dolph (born October 19, 1835 in Dolphsburg , Tompkins County , New York , †  March 10, 1897 in Portland , Oregon ) was an American politician ( Republican Party ) who represented the state of Oregon in the US Senate .

Career

Joseph Dolph attended public and private schools in New York State and the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary , a theological seminary of the Methodist Church in Lima . He then studied law and was inducted into the bar in 1861, after which he began to practice in Schuyler County . He also worked as a teacher.

After reading books about the western United States, he decided in 1862 to go there himself. He and his younger brother Cyrus, who would later become a successful entrepreneur in the railroad industry, joined the Oregon Trail and worked with the Oregon Escort , a protection force to repel Indian attacks on the settlers. Eventually Dolph settled permanently in Portland, where he again ran a law firm. From 1864 to 1865 he was a trial attorney for the city, then until 1868 federal attorney for the district of Oregon. In 1864 he married Augusta Mulkey, with whom he had six children.

In 1866 Dolph was first as a representative of the Multnomah County in the Oregon State Senate voted; In 1872 and 1874 he succeeded in returning to this parliamentary chamber. Finally, in 1882, he was elected to the US Senate by members of the Oregon Legislative Assembly , which was a surprise since he was not one of the candidates at first. However, when the members of parliament could not agree on any other candidate, Dolph's name was mentioned more and more often, and it was ultimately able to win a majority. He sat from March 4, 1883 in Congress and took over the chairmanship of the Committee on Coast Defenses and the Committee on Public Lands . In 1888 he succeeded in re-election, which he missed six years later, after which he had to leave the Senate on March 3, 1895.

As a result, Joseph Dolph worked as a lawyer in Portland again. Joseph Simon , John H. Mitchell and Rufus Mallory , who also sat for Oregon in Congress, worked for his law firm . Clients include Henry Villard , president of the Northern Pacific Railway ; he also represented the interests of the Oregon and California Railroad . Joseph Dolph died in Portland in 1897 and was buried there. The city of Dolph in Tillamook County bears his name. His nephew Frederick W. Mulkey also became a US Senator for Oregon.

Web links

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• Joseph N. Dolph in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Joseph N. Dolph in the database of Find a Grave (English)