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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IdahoDUBOIS, Fred Thomas
(1851—1930)
Senate Years of Service:
1891-1897; 1901-1907
Party:
Republican; Democrat
DUBOIS, Fred Thomas, a Delegate and a Senator from Idaho; born in Palestine, Crawford County, Ill., May 29, 1851; attended the public schools, and graduated from Yale College in 1872; secretary of the Board of Railway and Warehouse Commissioners of Illinois 1875-1876; moved Idaho Territory in 1880 and engaged in business; United States marshal of Idaho 1882-1886; elected as a Republican Delegate from the Territory of Idaho to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses and served from March 4, 1887, to July 3, 1890; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1891, to March 3, 1897; unsuccessful Silver Republican candidate for reelection to the United States Senate in 1896; chairman, Committee on Public Lands (Fifty-fourth Congress); elected as a Silver Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1901, to March 3, 1907; not a candidate for reeelection; shortly after his election to the Senate as a Silver Republican he became a Democrat; took up his residence in Washington, D.C.; appointed civilian member of the Board of Ordnance and Fortifications 1918-1920; appointed by President Calvin Coolidge to International Joint Commission created to prevent disputes regarding the use of the boundary waters between the United States and Canada 1924-1930; died in Washington, D.C., February 14, 1930; interment in Grove City Cemetery, Blackfoot, Idaho.
Bibliography
Cook, Rufus G. “The Political Suicide of Senator Fred T. Dubois of Idaho.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly
60 (October 1969): 193-98; Graff, Leo W., Jr. The Senatorial Career of Fred T. Dubois of Idaho, 1890-1907.
New York: Garland Publishing Co., 1988.
Clements, Louis J., ed. Fred T. Dubois’s “The Making of a State”
. Rexburg: Eastern Idaho Publishing Co., 1971.
Cook, Rufus G. “The Political Suicide of Senator Fred T. Dubois of Idaho.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly
60 (October 1969): 193-98.
Graff, Leo W., Jr. “Fred T. Dubois and the Silver Issue, 1896.”Pacific Northwest Quarterly
53 (October 1962): 138-44.
___. The Senatorial Career of Fred T. Dubois of Idaho, 1890-1907.
New York: Garland Publishing, 1988.
Lauterbach, Margaret. “A Plentitude of Senators.” Idaho Yesterdays
21 (Fall 1977): 2-8
Wells, Merle W. “Fred T. DuBois and the Idaho Progressives.”Idaho Yesterdays
4 (Summer 1960): 24-31.
___. “Unexpected Allies: Fred T. Dubois and the Mormons in 1916.” Idaho Yesterdays
35 (Fall 1991): 27-33.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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