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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—ConnecticutPLATT, Orville Hitchcock
(1827—1905)
Senate Years of Service:
1879-1905
Party:
Republican
PLATT, Orville Hitchcock, a Senator from Connecticut; born in Washington, Litchfield County, Conn., July 19, 1827; attended the common schools and graduated from the Gunnery Academy, Washington, Conn.; studied law in Litchfield, Conn.; admitted to the bar in 1850 and commenced practice in Towanda, Pa.; moved to Meriden, Conn., in 1850 and continued to practice law; clerk of the State senate 1855-1856; secretary of State of Connecticut 1857; member, State senate 1861-1862; member, State house of representatives in 1864, 1869, and served as speaker in the latter year; State’s attorney for New Haven County 1877-1879; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1879; reelected in 1885, 1891, 1897 and 1903 and served from March 4, 1879, until his death; chairman, Committee on Patents (Forty-seventh through Forty-ninth and Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses), Committee on Pensions (Forty-seventh Congress), Committee on Territories (Fiftieth through Fifty-second Congresses), Committee on Cuban Relations (Fifty-sixth through Fifty-eighth Congresses), Committee on the Judiciary (Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses); died in Meriden, Conn., April 21, 1905; interment in Washington (Conn.) Cemetery on the Green.
Bibliography
American National Biography
; Dictionary of American Biography
; Coolidge, Louis. An Old Fashioned Senator: Orville H. Platt
. 1910. Reprint. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat, 1971; Smith, Edwina C. ”Conservatism in the Gilded Age: The Senatorial Career of Orville H. Platt.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of North Carolina, 1976.
Coolidge, Louis Arthur. An Old Fashioned Senator: Orville H. Platt of Connecticut: The Story of a Life Unselfishly Devoted to the Public Service
. 2 vols. 1910. Reprint. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1971.
Merrill, Horace Samuel, and Marion Galbraith Merrill. The Republican Command, 1897-1913
. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1971.
Smith, Edwina Carol. “Conservatism in the Gilded Age: The Senatorial Career of Orville H. Platt.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1976.
State of Connecticut. Joint Report of the Commission on Memorials to Senators Orville Hitchcock Platt and Joseph Roswell Hawley to the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut
. Hartford, CT: Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1915.
U.S. Congress. Orville Hitchcock Platt (Late a Senator from Connecticut). Memorial Addresses Delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives
. 59th Cong., 1st sess., 1905-1906. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1906.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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