Henry laurens dawes biography of donald

Henry Laurens Dawes ( – ) est un sénateuraméricain du Parti républicain et représentant de la Chambre des États-Unis, connu pour la Loi Dawes, destinée à stimuler l'assimilation des Amérindiens en arrêtant le système de gouvernement tribal et leur contrôle des terres communales.

 Vie et carrière

Dawes est né à Cummington (Massachusetts) en 1816. Après être diplômé de l'université Yale en 1839, il enseigne à Greenfield (Massachusetts), et publie également The Greenfield Gazette. En 1842, il est admis au barreau et commence la pratique du droit à North Adams, où il édite pendant quelque temps le North Adams Transcript.

En 1869, Dawes de

Basic Information

Name: Henry Laurens Dawes

Nickname: Too serious for a nickname

Born: October 30, 1816

Died: February 5, 1903

Nationality: American

Hometown: Cummington, Massachusetts

WORK & EDUCATION

Occupation: Teacher, Lawyer, Member of the House of Representatives, Senator

Education: Yale University

FAMILY & FRIENDS

Parents: Mitchell Dawes, Mercy (Burgess) Dawes

Siblings: N/A

Spouse: Electra Sanderson

Children: Thomas Sanderson Dawes, Anna Louisa Dawes, Chester M. Dawes, Robert Crawford Dawes, Henry L. Dawes

Friends: Warren G. Sayre (Commissioner of the Jerome Commission)

Foes: Senator Henry Teller

Analysis

Keep Private Life Private

There's surprisingly little information on Senator Henry Dawes. Other than the fact that he sponsored legislation that irrevocably changed the lives of Native Americans in our country, we don't know a whole lot about him except the basic facts.

Dawes was born in 1816 in a small town in Massachusetts. After graduating from Yale, he went back to Greenfield, Massachusetts to teach and edit a local newspaper. He opened a law practice in North Adams, Massachusetts in 1842 but kept one hand in the newspaper biz.

Writing about politics must have got him interested in jumping into the fray, and he was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1848 and to the state senate in 1850. After a stint as a U.S. District Attorney, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and stayed there for 23 years. He became a good buddy of President Lincoln, and when Lincoln was assassinated, Dawes was one of the pallbearers at his funeral (source).

As one of the senior members of the House, he authored several pieces of anti-slavery and Reconstruction legislation during Civil War times. Good guy stuff. You can also thank him for Weather.gov—he started a program for the government to issue daily weather reports so ever

SIGNATURE - HENRY LAURENS DAWES, US SENATOR

Clean, excellent condition ink signature on 4 1/4" x 2 5/8" card. Minor creases at corners. "H. L. Dawes / Mass."

DAWES, Henry Laurens, a Representative and a Senator from Massachusetts; born in Cummington, Mass., October 30, 1816; attended the common schools and received private instruction in preparatory studies; graduated from Yale College in 1839; became a teacher and edited the Greenfield Gazette and the North Adams Transcript; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1842 and commenced practice in North Adams, Mass.; member, State house of representatives 1848-1849, 1852; member, State senate 1850; member of the State constitutional convention in 1853; district attorney for the western district of Massachusetts 1853-1857; elected to the Thirty-fifth and to the eight succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1875); chairman, Committee on Elections (Thirty-seventh through Fortieth Congresses), Committee on Appropriations (Forty-first Congress), Committee on Ways and Means (Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses); declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1874; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1875; reelected in 1881 and again in 1887, and served from March 4, 1875, to March 3, 1893; declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1893; chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Forty-fifth Congress), Committee on Indian Affairs (Forty-seventh through Fifty-second Congresses); settled in Pittsfield, Mass.; chairman of the commission created to administer the tribal affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians in the Indian Territory 1893-1903; died in Pittsfield, Mass., February 5, 1903; interment in Pittsfield Cemetery.

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