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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—WisconsinJames Rood DOOLITTLE
(1815-1897)
Senate Years of Service:
1857-1869Party: RepublicanDOOLITTLE, James Rood, a
Senator from Wisconsin; born in Hampton, N.Y., January 3, 1815;
attended the common schools and Middlebury (Vt.) Academy, and
graduated from Hobart College, Geneva, N.Y., in 1834; studied law;
admitted to the bar in 1837 and commenced practice in Rochester,
N.Y.; moved to Warsaw, N.Y., in 1841; district attorney of Wyoming
County, N.Y., 1847-1850; moved to Racine, Wis., in 1851; judge of
the first judicial circuit of Wisconsin 1853-1856, when he
resigned; the repeal of the Missouri Compromise caused him to leave
the Democratic Party; elected as a Republican to the United States
Senate in January 1857; reelected in 1863 and served from March 4,
1857, to March 3, 1869; chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs
(Thirty-seventh through Thirty-ninth Congresses); left the
Republican Party and was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor on
the Democratic ticket in 1871; resumed the practice of law in
Chicago, Ill., but retained his residence in Racine, Wis.; trustee
of the University of Chicago, serving one year as its president,
and was for many years a professor in its law school; died in
Edgewood, Providence, R.I., July 23, 1897; interment in Mound
Cemetery, Racine, Wis.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Albright, Claude. “Dixon, Doolittle and
Norton: The Forgotten Republican Votes on Johnson’s
Impeachment.” Wisconsin Magazine of History 59 (Winter
1975-1976): 91-100.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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