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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—WisconsinCARPENTER, Matthew Hale
(1824—1881)
Senate Years of Service:
1869-1875; 1879-1881
Party:
Republican; Republican
CARPENTER, Matthew Hale, a Senator from Wisconsin; born Decatur Merritt Hammond Carpenter in Moretown, Washington County, Vt., December 22, 1824; attended the common schools; entered the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1843 and remained two years; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1847 and practiced in Boston, Mass.; moved to Beloit, Wis., in 1848 and became known as Matthew Hale Carpenter; district attorney of Rock County 1850-1854; moved to Milwaukee in 1858; belonged to the Douglas wing of the Democratic Party until the commencement of the Civil War; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1869, to March 3, 1875; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1875; served as President pro tempore of the Senate during the Forty-third Congress; chairman, Committee on Enrolled Bills (Forty-second Congress), Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expense (Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses); resumed the practice of law in Washington and in Milwaukee; again elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1879, until his death in Washington, D.C., February 24, 1881; interment in Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wis.
Bibliography
American National Biography
; Dictionary of American Biography
; Deutsch, Herman J. “Carpenter and the Senatorial Election of 1875 in Wisconsin.” Wisconsin Magazine of History
16 (September 1932): 26-46; Thompson, E. Bruce. Matthew Hale Carpenter, Webster of the West
. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1954.
Deutsch, Herman J. “Carpenter and the Senatorial Election of 1875 in Wisconsin.” Wisconsin Magazine of History
16 (September 1932): 26-46.
Flower, Frank Abial. Life of Matthew Hale Carpenter
. Madison, WI: D. Atwood Co., 1883.
Thompson, Edwin Bruce. Matthew Hale Carpenter, Webster of the West
. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1954.
U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Matthew H. Carpenter (a Senator from Wisconsin), Delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives
. 47th Cong., 1st sess., 1881-1882. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1882.
U.S. Supreme Court. Proceedings of the Bench and Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States: In Memoriam, Matthew H. Carpenter
. Washington: J.L. Pearson, Printer, 1881.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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