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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New HampshireJacob Harold GALLINGER
(1837-1918)
Senate Years of Service:
1891-1918Party: RepublicanGALLINGER, Jacob Harold, a
Representative and a Senator from New Hampshire; born in Cornwall,
Ontario, Canada, March 28, 1837; attended the common schools and
completed an academic course; became a printer; studied medicine
and graduated from the Cincinnati (Ohio) Medical Institute in 1858;
studied abroad for two years; returned to the United States and
engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery in Concord, N.H.;
member, State house of representatives 1872-1873, 1891; member of
the State constitutional convention in 1876; member, State senate
1878-1880; was surgeon general of New Hampshire, with the rank of
brigadier general 1879-1880; elected as a Republican to the
Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1889);
declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1888; elected as a
Republican to the United States Senate in 1891; reelected in 1897,
1903, 1909, and 1914, and served from March 4, 1891, until his
death in Franklin, N.H., August 17, 1918; served as President pro
tempore during the Sixty-second Congress; Republican Conference
chairman (Sixty-third to Sixty-fifth Congresses); chairman,
Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard (Fifty-second
Congress), Committee on Pensions (Fifty-fourth to Fifty-seventh
Congress), Committee on the District of Columbia (Fifty-seventh to
Sixty-second Congresses); chairman of the Merchant Marine
Commission 1904-1905; interment in Blossom Hill Cemetery, Concord,
N.H.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Schlup, Leonard. “Consistent Conservative:
Jacob Harold Gallinger and the Presidential Campaign of 1912 in New
Hampshire.” International Review of History and Political
Science 21 (August 1984): 49-57; U.S. Congress. Memorial
Services for Jacob Harold Gallinger. 65th Cong., 3rd sess.,
1918-1919. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1919.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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