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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyWilliam Joyce SEWELL
(1835-1901)
Senate Years of Service:
1881-1887; 1895-1901Party: Republican;
RepublicanSEWELL, William Joyce, a
Senator from New Jersey; born in Castlebar, Ireland, December 6,
1835; immigrated to the United States in 1851; engaged in
mercantile pursuits in Chicago, Ill.; moved to Camden, N.J., in
1860; during the Civil War, served with the New Jersey Volunteers,
beginning as a captain in 1861; brevetted brigadier general and
major general in 1865; awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in
1896, for having assumed command of a brigade at Chancellorsville,
Va., May 3, 1863; after the war became connected with railroads in
New Jersey; member, State senate 1872-1881, serving as president in
1876, 1879-1880; elected as a Republican to the United States
Senate and served from March 4, 1881, to March 3, 1887;
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1887, and for election to
the United States Senate in 1889 and 1893; chairman, Committee on
Enrolled Bills (Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses),
Committee on Military Affairs (Forty-ninth Congress), Committee on
the Library (Forty-ninth Congress); one of the national
commissioners for New Jersey to the World’s Columbian
Exposition in Chicago in 1893; was in command of the Second Brigade
of the National Guard of New Jersey; appointed a member of the
Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer
Soldiers; again elected to the United States Senate in 1895;
reelected in 1901 and served from March 4, 1895, until his death in
Camden, N.J., December 27, 1901; chairman, Committee on Enrolled
Bills (Fifty-fourth through Fifty-seventh Congresses); interment in
Harleigh Cemetery.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; U.S. Congress. Memorial
Addresses. 57th Cong., 2nd sess., 1902-1903. Washington, D.C.:
Government Printing Office, 1903.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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