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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—NevadaNEWLANDS, Francis Griffith
(1848—1917)
Senate Years of Service:
1903-1917
Party:
Democrat
NEWLANDS, Francis Griffith, (son-in-law of William Sharon), a Representative and a Senator from Nevada; born in Natchez, Adams County, Miss., August 28, 1848; moved to Illinois in 1848 with his parents, who settled in Quincy; privately tutored; attended Yale College and the Columbian College Law School (now George Washington University), Washington, D.C.; admitted to the bar in 1869; moved to San Francisco in 1870 and practiced law; moved to Nevada in 1888 and continued the practice of law; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1903); did not seek renomination in 1902, having become a candidate for Senator; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1903; reelected in 1909 and again in 1915 and served from March 4, 1903, until his death; chairman, Committee on Corporations Organized in the District of Columbia (Sixty-second Congress), Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Sixty-second Congress), Committee on Interstate Commerce (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Congresses); died in Washington, D.C., December 24, 1917; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Bibliography
American National Biography
; Dictionary of American Biography
; Lilley, William, III. “The Early Career of Francis G. Newlands, 1848-1897.” Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University, 1965; Rowley, William D. Reclaiming the Arid West: The Career of Francis G. Newlands
. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.
Atwood, Albert William. Francis G. Newlands, A Builder of the Nation
. Washington: n.p., 1969.
Carnell, Richard S. “Francis G. Newlands and the National Incorporation of the Railroads.” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly
19 (Spring 1976): 3-25.
Darling, Arthur B., ed. The Public Papers of Francis G. Newlands
. 2 vols. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1932.
Lilley, William, III. “The Early Career of Francis G. Newlands, 1848-1897.” Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University, 1965.
Rowley, William D. “Farewell to the Rotten Borough: Francis G. Newlands in Nevada.” Halcyon
17 (1995).
___. “Francis G. Newlands and the Promises of American Life.” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly
32 (Fall 1989): 169-80.
___. “Francis G. Newlands: A Westerner’s Search for a Progressive and White America.” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly
17 (Summer 1974): 69-79.
___. Reclaiming the Arid West: The Career of Francis G. Newlands
. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.
Progressive.” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly
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U.S. Congress. Francis Griffith Newlands (Late a Senator from Nevada)
. 65th Cong., 2d sess., 1917-1918. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1920.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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