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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Rhode IslandAmbrose Everett BURNSIDE
(1824-1881)
Senate Years of Service:
1875-1881Party: RepublicanBURNSIDE, Ambrose Everett,
a Senator from Rhode Island; born in Liberty, Ind., May 23, 1824;
attended a seminary at Liberty and Beach Grove Academy; graduated
from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1847;
served in the Mexican and Indian wars; resigned in 1852 to
manufacture a breech-loading rifle of his own invention; moved to
Illinois, and was appointed treasurer of the Illinois Central
Railroad in 1858; during the Civil War entered the Union Army in
1861 as colonel; commanded a brigade at the first Battle of Bull
Run; commissioned brigadier general and major general and resigned
in 1865; Governor of Rhode Island 1866-1868; during a visit to
Europe in 1870 acted as mediator between the French and the Germans
then at war; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in
1874; reelected in 1880 and served from March 4, 1875, until his
death in Bristol, R.I., September 13, 1881; chairman, Committee on
Education and Labor (Forty-fifth Congress), Committee on Foreign
Relations (Forty-seventh Congress); interment in Swan Point
Cemetery, Providence, R.I.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Marvel, William.
Burnside. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
1991; Thomas, Donna. “Ambrose E. Burnside and Army
Reform.” Rhode Island History 37 (February 1978):
3-13.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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