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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—VermontRedfield PROCTOR
(1831-1908)
Senate Years of Service:
1891-1908Party: RepublicanPROCTOR, Redfield, a
Senator from Vermont; born in Proctorsville, Windsor County, Vt.,
June 1, 1831; graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in
1851 and from the Albany Law School in 1859; admitted to the bar
and practiced in Boston, Mass., in 1860 and 1861; during the Civil
War enlisted in the Union Army as a major, promoted to colonel, and
was mustered out in 1863; returned to Vermont, engaged in the
practice of law, and became interested in the development of the
marble industry; member, State house of representatives 1867-1868;
member, State senate and president pro tempore 1874-1875;
lieutenant governor of the State 1876-1878; Governor of Vermont
1878-1880; member, State house of representatives 1888; appointed
Secretary of War in the Cabinet of President Benjamin Harrison in
1889; resigned from the Cabinet in 1891 to become Senator;
appointed in 1891 and subsequently elected as a Republican to the
United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation
of George F. Edmunds; reelected in 1892, 1898 and 1904 and served
from November 2, 1891, until his death; chairman, Committee on
Agriculture and Forestry (Fifty-fourth through Sixtieth
Congresses), Committee on Military Affairs (Fifty-ninth Congress);
died in Washington, D.C., on March 4, 1908; interment in the City
Cemetery, Proctor, Rutland County, Vt.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Bowie, Chester W. “Redfield Proctor: A
Biography.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin,
1980; Partridge, Frank. “Redfield Proctor.” Vermont
Historical Society Proceedings (1915): 59-123.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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