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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaDaniel Wolsey VOORHEES
(1827-1897)
Senate Years of Service:
1877-1897Party: DemocratVOORHEES, Daniel Wolsey,
(father of Charles Stewart Voorhees), a Representative and a
Senator from Indiana; born in Liberty Township, Butler County,
Ohio, September 26, 1827; moved with his parents to Indiana in
early childhood; attended the common schools of Veedersburg, Ind.;
graduated from Indiana Asbury (now De Pauw) University at
Greencastle in 1849; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1851 and
commenced practice in Covington, Ind.; moved to Terre Haute and
continued the practice of law; unsuccessful candidate for election
in 1856 to the Thirty-fifth Congress; United States district
attorney for Indiana 1858-1861; elected as a Democrat to the
Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1861-March 3,
1865); presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Thirty-ninth
Congress and served from March 4, 1865, to February 23, 1866, when
he was succeeded by Henry D. Washburn, who contested the election;
elected to the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses (March 4,
1869-March 3, 1873); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1872
to the Forty-third Congress; appointed and subsequently elected as
a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Oliver H.P.T. Morton; reelected in 1885 and again
in 1891, and served from November 6, 1877, to March 3, 1897;
unsuccessful candidate for reelection; chairman, Committee on the
Library (Forty-sixth Congress), Committee on Finance (Fifty-third
Congress); died in Washington, D.C., April 10, 1897; interment in
Highland Lawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Ind.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Jordan, Henry D. “Daniel Wolsey
Voorhees.” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 6
(March 1920): 532-55; Kenworthy, Leonard S. The Tall Sycamore of
the Wabash, Daniel Voorhees. Boston: B. Humphries, 1936.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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