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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Minnesota / WisconsinSIBLEY, Henry Hastings
(1811—1891)
SIBLEY, Henry Hastings, (son of Solomon Sibley), a Delegate from the Territories of Wisconsin and Minnesota; born in Detroit, Mich., February 20, 1811; attended the Detroit Academy and also studied under private tutors; studied law; moved to Sault Ste. Marie in 1828 and engaged in mercantile pursuits until 1829, when he moved to Mackinac and entered the service of the American Fur Co.; justice of the peace in 1831; moved to the mouth of the Minnesota River in 1834 and engaged in fur trading; elected as a Delegate from the Territory of Wisconsin to the Thirtieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the disqualification of John H. Tweedy and served from October 30, 1848, to March 3, 1849; upon the formation of the Territory of Minnesota was elected as a Delegate to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses and served from July 7, 1849, to March 3, 1853; declined to be a candidate for renomination; member of the Territorial Legislature of Minnesota in 1855; member of the constitutional convention of Minnesota in 1857, and served as president; Governor of Minnesota 1858-1860; regent of the State university 1860-1869 and president of the board of regents 1876-1891; served in the Union Army as brigadier general of Volunteers from 1862 until he was honorably mustered out April 30, 1866; moved to St. Paul, Minn.; interested in banking, railroads, and other public corporations; president of the St. Paul Gas Co. in 1866; president of the Minnesota Historical Society 1879-1891; unsuccessful candidate for election to the Forty-seventh Congress; appointed by President Arthur in 1883 as president of the commission to settle damage claims of the Ojibway Indians resulting from the construction of national reservoirs; died in St. Paul, Minn., February 18, 1891; interment in Oakland Cemetery.
Bibliography
Jorstad, Erling T. “The Life of Henry Hastings Sibley.” Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin, 1957.
Carley, Kenneth. “The Sioux Campaign of 1862: Sibley’s Letters to His Wife.” Minnesota History
38 (September 1962): 99-114.
Flanagan, John T. “Big Game Hunter, Henry H. Sibley.” Minnesota History
41 (Spring 1969): 217-28.
Gilman, Rhoda R. Henry Hastings Sibley: Divided Heart
. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2004.
Gilman, Rhoda R. “How Henry Sibley Took the Road to New Hope.” Minnesota History
52 (Summer 1991): 220-29.
Gray, James. “Two Leaders of the Old Northwest: Hercules Dousman and Henry Sibley.” Wisconsin Magazine of History
29 (March 1946): 263-80.
Jorstad, Erling T. “The Life of Henry Hastings Sibley.” Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin, 1957.
Shortridge, Wilson P. “The Transition of a Typical Frontier, With Illustration From the Life of Henry Hastings Sibley, Fur Trader, First Delegate in Congress from Minnesota Territory, and First Governor of the State of Minnesota.” Ph.D. diss., University of Minnesota, 1919.
———. The transition of a typical frontier, with illustrations from the life of Henry Hastings Sibley, fur trader, first delegate in Congress from Minnesota Territory and first governor of the state Minnesota
. [Menasha, Wis.: George Banta Publishing Company, 1922].
Sibley, Henry H. Address delivered before the Minnesota Historical Society, at its sixth anniversary, February 1st, 1856
. St. Paul: N.p., 1856.
———. Memoir of Hercules L. Dousman
. N.p., 1880.
———. Memoir of Jean Baptiste Faribault
. N.p., 1880.
———. Reminiscences; historical and personal
. St. Paul: N.p., 1872.
———. “Reminiscences of the Early Days of Minnesota.” In Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society,
vol. 3, part 2. St. Paul: Saint Paul Press Company, 1874.
———. Reminiscences of the Early Days of Minnesota
. N.p., 1880.
———. Sketch of the life of Nicollet
. St. Paul: N.p., 1853.
———. The Unfinished Autobiography of Henry Hastings Sibley, together with a selection of hitherto unpublished letters from the thirties
. Edited by Theodore C. Blegen. Minneapolis, Minn.: The Voyageur Press, F. T. Phelps, 1932.
West, Nathaniel. The ancestry, life, and times of Hon. Henry Hastings Sibley by Nathaniel West
. Saint Paul, Minn.: Pioneer Press, 1889.
Williams, J. Fletcher (John Fletcher). Henry Hastings Sibley: A memoir
. N.p., 1894.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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