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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—ArkansasDORSEY, Stephen Wallace
(1842—1916)
Senate Years of Service:
1873-1879
Party:
Republican
DORSEY, Stephen Wallace, a Senator from Arkansas; born in Benson, Rutland County, Vt., February 28, 1842; moved to Ohio and settled in Oberlin; attended the public schools; during the Civil War served in the Union Army; returned to Ohio and settled in Sandusky; was employed by the Sandusky Tool Co. and subsequently became its president; elected president of the Arkansas Railway Co.; moved to Arkansas and settled in Helena; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1873, to March 3, 1879; was not a candidate for reelection; chairman, Committee on District of Columbia (Forty-fifth Congress); member of the Republican National Committee in 1880; engaged in cattle raising and mining in New Mexico and Colorado; subsequently moved to Los Angeles, Calif., and resided there until his death on March 20, 1916; interment in Fairmont Cemetery, Denver, Colo.
Bibliography
American National Biography
; Dictionary of American Biography
; Caperton, Thomas J. Rogue! Being an Account of the Life and High Times of Stephen W. Dorsey, United States Senator and New Mexico Cattle Baron
. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1978; Lowry, Sharon K. “Portrait of an Age: The Political Career of Stephen W. Dorsey, 1868-1889.” Ph.D. dissertation, North Texas State University, 1980.
Caperton, Thomas J. Rogue! Being an Account of the Life and High Times of Stephen W. Dorsey, United States Senator and New Mexico Cattle Baron
. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1978.
Lowry, Sharon K. “Mirrors and Blue Smoke: Stephen Dorsey and the Santa Fe Ring in the 1880s.” New Mexico Historical Review
59 (October 1984): 395-409.
___. “Portrait of an Age: The Political Career of Stephen W. Dorsey, 1868-1889.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of North Texas, 1980.
Taylor, Morris F. “Stephen W. Dorsey, Speculator-Cattleman.” New Mexico Historical Review
49 (January 1974): 27-48.
Turner, Don. The Life and Castle of Stephen W. Dorsey: The Hard-Working Vermont Boy Who Became a Senator from Arkansas, a Cattle Baron in New Mexico and the Key Figure in a National Political Scandal
. Amarillo: Humbug Gulch Press, 1967.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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