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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—WashingtonSTEVENS, Isaac Ingalls
(1818—1862)
STEVENS, Isaac Ingalls, (cousin of Charles Abbot Stevens and Moses Tyler Stevens), a Delegate from the Territory of Washington; born in North Andover (then a part of Andover), Essex County, Mass., March 25, 1818; attended Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and was graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1839; entered the Corps of Engineers and served on the staff of General Scott in Mexico; assistant in charge of the Coast Survey Office in Washington, D.C.; organized and commanded the northern Pacific exploration party which explored and surveyed the route for a railway from St. Paul to Puget Sound in 1853; resigned his commission as major in the Corps of Engineers to become Governor; Governor of the Territory of Washington from 1853 to 1857; was a candidate for the Democratic nomination to Congress in 1855, but withdrew; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1861); was not a candidate for renomination in 1860; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions at Charleston and Baltimore in 1860; during the Civil War entered the Union Army as a colonel of the Seventy-ninth New York Highlanders; appointed brigadier general and later major general in command of a division; killed at the Battle of Chantilly, Virginia, September 1, 1862; interment in Island Cemetery, Newport, R.I.
Bibliography
Hazard, Joseph Taylor. Companion of Adventure; A Biography of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, First Governor of Washington Territory
. Portland, Oreg.: Binfords and Mort, 1952; Richards, Kent D. Isaac I. Stevens: Young Man in a Hurry.
Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1979. Reprint, Pullman, Wash.: Washington State University Press, 1993.
Doty, James. Journal of operations of Governor Isaac Ingalls Stevens of Washington Territory in 1855
Edited by Edward J. Kowrach. Fairfield, Wash.: Ye Galleon Press, 1978.
Hazard, Joseph Taylor. Companion of Adventure: A Biography of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, First Governor of Washington Territory
. Portland, Oreg.: Binfords, 1952.
Meinig, D. W. “Isaac Stevens: Practical Geographer of the Early Northwest.” Geographical Review
45 (October 1955): 542-58.
Mills, Hazel E. “Governor Isaac I. Stevens and the Washington Territorial Library.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly
53 (January 1962): 1-16.
Richards, Kent D. Isaac I. Stevens: Young Man in a Hurry
. Salt Lake City: Brigham Young University Press, 1979. Reprint, Pullman, Wash.: Washington State University Press, 1993.
Stevens, Hazard. The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, by his son, Hazard Stevens
. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, [1900].
Stevens, Isaac Ingalls. Address on the Northwest, before the American Geographical and Statistical Society, delivered at New York, December 2, 1858
. Washington: G. S. Gideon, printer, 1858.
———. Campaigns of the Rio Grande and of Mexico. With notices of the recent work of Major Ripley. By Brevet-Major Isaac I. Stevens, U.S. Army
. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1851.
———. A circular letter to emigrants desirous of locating in Washington Territory
. Washington: G.S. Gideon, printer, 1858.
———. Isothermal chart between the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean
. New York: N.p., 1850. Reprint, [N.p.: C.B. Graham, Lith., 1887].
———. Pacific Railroad
. [Washington: Congressional Globe
Office, 1858].
———. Pacific Railroad Northern Route. Letter... to the railroad convention of Washington and Oregon
. [N.p.], 1860.
———. Preliminary sketch of the Northern Pacific Rail Road exploration and survey
. Phila[delphia]: N.p., [1855].
———. Report of exploration of a route for the Pacific Railroad, near the 47th and 49th parallels, from St. Paul to Puget Sound
. [Washington: N.p., 1855].
———. Speech of Hon. Isaac I. Stevens, delegate from Washington Territory, on the Washington and Oregon War Claims. Delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, May 31, 1858
. Washington: Printed by L. Towers, 1858.
———. Speech of Hon. Isaac I. Stevens, of Washington Territory, on the Indian war expenses of Washington and Oregon. Delivered in the House of Representatives, February 21, 1859
. Washington: Printed by L. Towers, 1859.
———. A true copy of the record of the official proceedings at the council in the Walla Walla Valley, 1855
. Edited by Darrell Scott. Fairfield, Wash.: Ye Galleon Press, 1985.
———. Vindication of Governor Stevens, for proclaiming and enforcing martial law in Pierce County, W. T.
[Olympia: W. T.], 1856.
———. War expenses of Washington and Oregon territories. Remarks of Hon. Isaac I. Stevens ... made before the Committee of Military Affairs of the House, Friday, March 15, 1860
. Washington: T. McGill, printer, 1860.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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