Arthur Sewall
Arthur Sewall ( born November 25, 1835 in Bath, Maine, † September 5, 1900 in Small Point, Maine) was an American businessman and politician. He was the Democratic Party candidate for vice-president on the side of William Jennings Bryan in the presidential election in 1896.
Origin and professional development
Arthur Sewall's ancestors had emigrated in the early 17th century from England and settled in Massachusetts. His great-great uncle David Sewall 1789 was appointed by President George Washington to the first federal district judge for the District of Maine, who was at that time still a part of Massachusetts. His brother Dummer, Arthur Sewall's great-grandfather, served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Continental Army and was in the Massachusetts Senate.
William Dunning Sewall, Arthur's father, brought it as an entrepreneur in the shipbuilding industry to prosperity; in the coastal town of Bath, a center of the industry, he was its most famous representative. After completing his training, Arthur Sewall joined the family business; a year later he founded with one of his two older brothers founded E. & A. Sewall, who soon took over the business of the initial Sewall - operation. Her name was changed after the death of his brother in 1875 in Arthur Sewall & Co.. This company also took a long time for a leading position in the U.S. shipbuilding industry. Arthur Sewall but was also active in other business areas; he was from 1884 to 1893 director of the Maine Central Railroad and president of the Bath National Bank.
Political Activities
To elective office located Sewall applied before and after the presidential election in 1896 never. He started up in 1876 as a representative of Maine at the Democratic National Convention in St. Louis in part and sat from 1888 to 1896 as a delegate of his country in the Democratic National Committee. That he was elected at the nominating convention of the Democrats, which was held in Chicago in July 1896 Running mate of William Jennings Bryan, was seen as a concession to the conservative wing of the party. With Bryan, who was at that time 36 years old, there was a very young and progressive set presidential candidate who also received the support of the Populist Party. Above all, the party members from New England, who were troubled by this fact should be recovered with the nomination. The Populist Party had set up with Thomas E. Watson, a Congressman from Georgia, its own vice presidential candidate for Bryan.
Ultimately, the two Democratic candidates lost the election against the Republicans William McKinley and Garret Hobart. These received 271 votes in the Electoral College, Bryan accounted for 176 votes, he had only one state decided less than McKinley for themselves. 27 members of the electoral college from ten of the 22 states won by the Democrats voted not for Sewall but for Thomas E. Watson as vice-president. While William Jennings Bryan twice more (1900 and 1908 ) ran for the presidency, Arthur Sewall died four years later in Small Point, a small town in Sagadahoc County. His grandson, Sumner Sewall was also politicians, however, belonged to the Republican Party. He was from 1941 to 1945 Governor of the State of Maine. His father, Harold, Arthur Sewall's son, sat in the Senate and House of Representatives of Maine.
2008, involved the St. Louis Post -Dispatch, the largest daily newspaper of St. Louis, in a comment on the forthcoming presidential election on Arthur Sewall. There it was, with Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was John McCain " the least qualified running mate since the shipbuilder Arthur Sewall swedenborgianischen in 1896 " selected. The term " swedenborgianisch " refers to Sewall's affiliation with the New Church, a faith community, whose followers are called based on their founder also " Swedenborgian ".