Joseph M. Carey
Joseph Maull Carey ( born January 19, 1845 in Milton, Delaware, † February 5, 1924 in Cheyenne, Wyoming) was an American lawyer, rancher, judge, and politician, who played most of his political career in Wyoming.
Life
Joseph Carey was educated at Fort Edward Collegiate Institute and Union College before he graduated the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1864. In 1867 he was admitted. Shortly thereafter, he was oriented westward and served until 1871 as a federal prosecutor for the Wyoming Territory. From 1871 to 1876 he worked at the Supreme Court of Wyoming, before he quit this job and now rancher was. Since 1872, he also worked on his political career.
Policy
Already from 1881 to 1885 he was mayor of the city of Cheyenne, then he represented the Wyoming Territory to 1890 as a non-voting delegate in the House of Representatives of the United States. After Wyoming became State, Carey was selected for the Republicans in the U.S. Senate. A re-election in 1895 but failed. He retired from politics until 1911 and worked as a lawyer. In 1911, he managed to be elected governor of Wyoming. A year later he returned to the Republican Party 's back and turned to the Progressive Party, which had taken up the cause to re-elect Theodore Roosevelt as U.S. President. Carey was also vice president of the state Bodenkreditbank ( Federal Land Bank ) and Member of the Supervisory Board of the University of Wyoming in Laramie.
His son Robert was also a politician. He practiced his father from the offices of the governor of Wyoming and U.S. Senator for that State.
Swell
- John A. Garraty (ed. ): American National Biography, Vol 4, OUP, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-512783-8.
- Dictionary of American Biography. Scribner, New York, ISBN 0-684-80583-9 (1 CD -ROM).
- Betsy R. Peters: Joseph M. Carey and The Progressive Movement in Wyoming. Dissertation, University of Wyoming, Laramie 1971.