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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaJULIAN, George Washington
(1817—1899)
JULIAN, George Washington, a Representative from Indiana; born near Centerville, Wayne County, Ind., on May 5, 1817; attended the common schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1840 and commenced practice in Greenfield, Ind.; member of the State house of representatives in 1845; delegate to the Buffalo Free-Soil Convention in 1848; elected as a Free-Soiler to the Thirty-first Congress (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1851); unsuccessful candidate for election in 1850 to the Thirty-second Congress; unsuccessful candidate for Vice President of the United States on the Free-Soil ticket in 1852; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1856; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1871); chairman, Committee on Public Lands (Thirty-eighth through Forty-first Congresses), Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy (Thirty-ninth Congress); appointed by President Cleveland surveyor general of New Mexico and served from July 1885 until September 1889; returned to Indiana and settled in Irvington; engaged in literary pursuits; died in Irvington, a suburb of Indianapolis, Ind., July 7, 1899; interment in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
Bibliography
Julian, George Washington. Political Recollections, 1840 to 1872
. Chicago: Jansen, McClurg and Co., 1884; Riddleberger, Patrick W. George Washington Julian, Radical Republican
. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Bureau, 1966.
Clarke, Grace Giddings Julian. George W. Julian.
Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Commission,1923.
Engstrom, Mabel Marie. George Washington Julian
. Chicago, Ill.: N.p., 1929.
Julian, George Washington. The cause and cure of our national troubles. Speech of Hon. Geo. W. Julian, of Indiana, delivered in the House of Representatives, Tuesday, January 14, 1862
. Washington, D.C.: Scammell & Co., printers, 1862.
———. Dangers and duties. Reconstruction and suffrage. Speech of Hon. George W. Julian, delivered in the hall of the House of Representatives, Indianapolis, Ind., November 17, 1865, in response to an invitation from that body
. Cincinnati: Gazette Steam Print, 1865.
———. Homesteads for soldiers on the lands of Rebels
. [Washington: L. Towers & Co., printers, 1864].
———. Later speeches on political questions, with select controversial papers
. Edited by his daughter, Grace Julian Clarke. Indianapolis: Carlon & Hollenbeck, 1889.
———. The life of Joshua R. Giddings
. Chicago: A.C. McClurg and Co., 1892.
———. Our land policy—its evils and their remedy. Speech of Hon. George W. Julian, of Indiana, in the House of Representatives, March 6, 1868: The House having under consideration bill no. 370, to prevent the further sale of the public lands of the United States, except as provided for in the preemption and homestead laws, and the laws for the disposal of town sites and mineral lands
. Washington: Printed at the Office of the Great Republic, 1868.
———. Political Recollections, 1840 to 1872.
1884. Reprint, New York: Negro Universities Press, 1970.
———. Radicalism and conservation—the truth of history vindicated
. [Washington?: N.p., 1865].
———. Radicalism, the nation’s hope: Speech of Hon. George W. Julian of Indiana, delivered in the House of Representatives, June 16, 1866
. [Washington: Congressional Globe
Office, 1866].
———. The rank of Charles Osborn as an anti-slavery pioneer
. Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1891.
———. The rebellion—the mistakes of the past—the duty of the present
. [Washington: N.p., 1863].
———. Regeneration before reconstruction
. Washington: Printed at the Congressional Globe
Office, 1867.
———. The rights of pre-emptors on the public lands of the government threatened—the conspiracy exposed
. [Washington: Printed at the Congressional Globe
Office, 1866].
———. Sale of mineral lands
. [Washington: Printed by L. Towers, 1865].
———. Select speeches of Hon. Geo. W. Julian, of Indiana, delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, since the beginning of the late rebellion
. Cincinnati: Gazette Steam Book and Job Printing, 1867.
———. Speech of Hon. G.W. Julian of Indiana on amending the Constitution: Delivered in the House of Representatives, January 29, 1866
. [Washington: Congressional Globe
Office, 1866].
———. Speech of Hon. George W. Julian, of Indiana, on the punishment of rebel leaders: Delivered in the House of Representatives, April 30, 1866
. Washington, D.C.: Printed at the Congressional Globe
Office, 1866.
———. Speech of Hon. George W. Julian, of Indiana, on the slavery question, delivered in the House of Representatives, May 14, 1850
. Washington: Printed at the Congressional Globe
Office, 1850.
———. Speeches on political questions
. With an introduction. by L. Maria Child. Westport, Conn.: Negro Universities Press, [1970].
———. Suffrage in the District of Columbia
. [Washington: Printed at the Congressional Globe
Office, 1866].
Meredith, Solomon. Defense of General Sol. Meredith against the false charges and infamous slanders of George W. Julian
. [Indianapolis: Douglass & Conner, 1866].
Riddleberger, Patrick W. George Washington Julian, Radical Republican.
Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Bureau, 1966.
Stewart, James Brewer. Joshua R. Giddings and the Tactics of Radical Politics
. Cleveland: Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1970.
Williams, R. Hal. “George W. Julian and Land Reform in New Mexico, 1885-1889.” Agricultural History
41 (January 1967): 71-84.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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