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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—ConnecticutDEAN, Sidney
(1818—1901)
DEAN, Sidney, a Representative from Connecticut; born in Glastonbury, Conn., November 16, 1818; attended the common schools and Wilbraham and Suffield Academies; minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church from 1843 to 1853, when he retired from the ministry because of impaired health; engaged in manufacturing in Putnam, Conn.; member of the Connecticut house of representatives in 1854 and 1855; elected as the candidate of the American Party to the Thirty-fourth Congress and as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1859); chairman, Committee on Public Expenditures (Thirty-fourth Congress); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1858; in 1860 reentered the ministry, with pastorates in Pawtucket, Providence, and finally in Warren, R.I.; during the period 1865-1880 engaged as editor of the Providence Press, Providence Star, and Rhode Island Press; served in the Rhode Island senate in 1870 and 1871; engaged in literary pursuits and lecturing; died in Brookline, Norfolk County, Mass., October 29, 1901; interment in South Cemetery, Warren, R.I.
Dean, Sidney. The cause, developments and results of the war: an oration delivered before the municipal authorities and citizens of Providence, July 4, 1864
. Providence: Knowles, Anthony & Co., printers, 1864.
—-. A constitutional convention: Speech of Hon. Sidney Dean, of Warren, in the Senate of Rhode Island, Feb., 1, 1871
. N.p., [1871?]
—-. Eulogy pronounced in the City Hall, Providence, April 19, 1865: On the occasion of the funeral solemnities of Abraham Lincoln, before His Excellency, James Y. Smith, Governor of the State of Rhode Island, members of the General Assembly, city authorities, the military, civic societies, and others
. Providence: H.H. Thomas & Co., 1865.
—-. History of banking and banks, from the bank of Venice to the year 1883
. Boston: Pelham Studios, 1884.
—-. Kansas—slavery—the Lecompton Constitution. Speech of Hon. Sidney Dean, of Connecticut. Delivered in the House of Representatives, March 25th, 1858
. [Washington, D.C.: Buell & Blanchard, printers, 1858].
—-. The war: And the duty of a loyal people. A sermon, preached in the Mathewson Street Methodist Episcopal Church, Providence, R. I. July 27, 1862, by the pastor, Rev. Sidney Dean
. Providence: Pierce & Budlong, printers, 1862.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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