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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OhioFORAKER, Joseph Benson
(1846—1917)
Senate Years of Service:
1897-1909
Party:
Republican
FORAKER, Joseph Benson, a Senator from Ohio; born near Rainsboro, Highland County, Ohio, on July 5, 1846; pursued preparatory studies; during the Civil War served in the Eighty-ninth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, attaining the rank of brevet captain; graduated from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., in 1869; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1869 and commenced practice in Cincinnati, Ohio; judge of the superior court of Cincinnati 1879-1882; unsuccessful Republican candidate for Governor of Ohio in 1883; Governor of Ohio 1885-1889; unsuccessful candidate for Governor in 1889; elected in 1896 as a Republican to the United States Senate; reelected in 1902 and served from March 4, 1897, to March 3, 1909; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1908; chairman, Committee to Examine Branches of the Civil Service (Fifty-fifth Congress), Committee on Pacific Islands and Puerto Rico (Fifty-sixth through Sixtieth Congresses); resumed the practice of law in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he died May 10, 1917; interment in Spring Grove Cemetery.
Bibliography
American National Biography
; Dictionary of American Biography
; Foraker, Joseph B. Notes of a Busy Life
. 2 vols. Cincinnati: Stewart and Kidd Co., 1916; Walters, Everett. Joseph Benson Foraker: An Uncompromising Republican
. Columbus: Ohio History Press, 1948.
Beck, Earl Ray. “The Political Career of Joseph Benson Foraker.” Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University, 1943.
Foraker, Joseph Benson. Notes of a Busy Life
. 2 vols. Cincinnati: Stewart Kidd Co., 1916.
Foraker, Julia Bundy. I Would Live It Again
. 1932. Reprint. New York: Arno Press, 1975.
Kendrick, Benjamin B. “McKinley and Foraker.” Political Science Quarterly
31 (December 1916): 590-604.
Libby, Justin. “ ‘Our Plain Duty’: Senator Joseph B. Foraker and the First Civil Government of Puerto Rico.” Mid-America
69 (January 1987): 39-56.
McMurdy, Robert [presumed author]. Sketch of Joseph B. Foraker
, 1883, with an Appendix, 1885. Dayton: Press of U.B. Publishing House, 1885.
Murray, Percy E. “Harry C. Smith-Joseph B. Foraker Alliance: Coalition Politics in Ohio.” Journal of Negro History
68 (Spring 1983): 171-84.
Tinsley, James A. “Roosevelt, Foraker, and the Brownsville Affray.” Journal of Negro History
41 (January 1956): 43-65.
Walters, Everett. Joseph Benson Foraker, an Uncompromising Republican
. Columbus: Ohio History Press, 1948.
Weaver, John D. The Senator and the Sharecropper’s Son: Exoneration of the Brownsville Soldiers
. College Station: Texas AM University Press, 1997.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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