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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—KansasBRISTOW, Joseph Little
(1861—1944)
Senate Years of Service:
1909-1915
Party:
Republican
BRISTOW, Joseph Little, a Senator from Kansas; born near Hazel Green, Wolf County, Ky., July 22, 1861; moved with his father to Fredonia, Kans., in 1873; attended the country schools, and graduated from Baker University, Baldwin, Kans., in 1886; clerk of the district court of Douglas County 1886-1890; in 1890 bought the Salina (Kans.) Daily Republican, which he edited for five years; elected secretary of the Republican State committee in 1894; private secretary to the Governor 1895-1897; purchased the Ottawa (Kans.) Herald, which he owned for more than ten years; again elected secretary of the Republican State committee in 1898; Fourth Assistant Postmaster General 1897-1905; purchased the Salina Daily Republican-Journal in 1903; appointed a special commissioner of the Panama Railroad in 1905; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1909, to March 3, 1915; was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1914; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Sixty-first and Sixty-second Congresses), Committee on Cuban Relations (Sixty-third Congress); temporarily engaged in agricultural pursuits with his son near Fairfax, Va.; chairman of the Kansas Utilities Commission 1915-1918; engaged in agricultural pursuits on his estate, “Ossian Hall,” near Fairfax, Va., from 1918 until his death there July 14, 1944; interment in Gypsum Hill Cemetery, Salina, Kans.
Bibliography
American National Biography
; Dictionary of American Biography
; Sageser, A. Bower. Joseph L. Bristow: Kansas Progressive
. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1968; Bristow, Joseph Little. Fraud and Politics at the Turn of the Century
. Edited by Joseph Q. Bristow and Frank B. Bristow. New York: Exposition Press, 1952.
Bristow, Joseph Little. Fraud and Politics at the Turn of the Century
. Edited by Joseph Q. Bristow and Frank B. Bristow. New York: Exposition Press, 1952.
Easterling, Larry J. “Sen. Joseph L. Bristow and the Seventeenth Amendment.” Kansas Historical Quarterly
41 (Winter 1975): 488-511.
Mitchell, William H. “Joseph L. Bristow, Kansas Insurgent in the U.S. Senate, 1909-1915.” Master’s thesis, University of Kansas, 1952.
Sageser, A. Bower. “Editor Bristow and the Great Plains Irrigation Revival of the 1890’s.” Journal of the West
3 (January 1964): 75-89.
___. “Joseph L. Bristow: The Editor’s Road to Politics.” Kansas Historical Quarterly
30 (Summer 1964): 153-62.
___. Joseph L. Bristow: Kansas Progressive
. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1968.
___. “The Postal Career of Sen. Joseph L. Bristow.” Kansas Historical Quarterly
34 (Spring 1968): 1-9.
Snell, Joseph W., ed. Joseph Little Bristow Papers, 1894-1925, in the Kansas State Historical Society
. Topeka: Kansas State Historical Society, 1967. Microfilm. 119 reels and guide.
Travis, Paul D. “Gore, Bristow and Taft.” Chronicles of Oklahoma
53 (Summer 1975): 212-24.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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