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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Rhode IslandBURNSIDE, Ambrose Everett
(1824—1881)
Senate Years of Service:
1875-1881
Party:
Republican
BURNSIDE, 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
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Cullen, Joseph P. “ ‘The very Beau Ideal of a Soldier’: A Personality Profile of Ambrose E. Burnside.” Civil War Times Illustrated
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Edwards, Knight. “Burnside: A Rhode Island Hero.” Rhode Island History
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Marvel, William. Burnside
. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.
Morton, Julia Jenkins. “Trusting to Luck: Ambrose E. Burnside and the American Civil War.” Ph.D. dissertation, Kent State University, 1992.
Poore, Ben: Perley. The Life and Public Services of Ambrose E. Burnside, Soldier—Citizen—Statesman
. Providence: J.A. & R.A. Reid, 1882.
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U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Ambrose E. Burnside (a Senator From Rhode Island)
. 47th Cong., 1st sess., 1881-1882. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1882.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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