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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—WisconsinDOTY, James Duane
(1799—1865)
DOTY, James Duane, (cousin of Morgan Lewis Martin), a Delegate and a Representative from Wisconsin; born in Salem, Washington County, N.Y., November 5, 1799; attended the common schools; studied law; moved to Detroit, Mich., in 1818; was admitted to the bar in 1819 and commenced practice in Detroit; secretary of the legislative council and clerk of court of Michigan Territory; United States judge for northern Michigan 1823-1832; member of the legislative council in 1834 and 1835; assisted in bringing about the division of Michigan Territory into the three Territories of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa; preempted several tracts of Government land in the Territory of Wisconsin; laid out the capital of Wisconsin and named it Madison; successfully contested as a Democrat the election of George W. Jones as a Delegate to the Twenty-fifth Congress; reelected to the Twenty-sixth Congress and served from January 14, 1839, to March 3, 1841; Governor of the Territory of Wisconsin 1841-1844; delegate to the first constitutional convention of 1846; elected as a Democrat a Representative to the Thirty-first Congress and as an Independent Democrat to the Thirty-second Congress (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1853); appointed superintendent of Indian affairs for Utah Territory in 1861; treasurer and Governor of Utah Territory in 1863 and served until his death in Salt Lake City, Utah, June 13, 1865; interment in Fort Douglas Cemetery.
Brown, Elizabeth Gaspar. “Judge James Doty’s Notes of Trials and Opinions: 1823-1832.” American Journal of Legal History
9 (January 1965): 17-40; (April 1965): 156-66; (July 1965): 216-33; (October 1965): 350-62.
Debate in the House of Representatives, U. States, upon the resolution of Mr. Dodge, of Wisconsin, to inquire into the official conduct of Governor Doty, Saturday, May 14, 1842
. Washington: Printed at the Globe
Office, 1842.
Doty, James Duane. Northern Wisconsin in 1820
. N.p., n.d.
———. To the People of Wiskonsin [sic]
. [Washington: J.D. Doty, 1840].
Ellis, Albert Gallatin. Life and public services of J. D. Doty
. Madison: N.p., 1868.
Smith, Alice E. (Alice Elizabeth). James Duane Doty, Frontier Promoter
. Madison, [Wis.]: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1954.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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