Calvin C. Bliss

Calvin Comins Bliss ( born December 22, 1823 in Calais, Washington County, Vermont, † December 13, 1891 in Sweet Home, Arkansas ) was an American politician. Between 1864 and 1868 he was Deputy Governor of the State of Arkansas.

Career

Calvin Bliss attended until 1847 the Hamilton Literary and Theological Institution, today's Colgate University in Hamilton in Upstate New York. He left this school but prematurely - possibly because it prohibited political activities for the abolition of slavery. He then worked in various employments in New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut. He was also active in the real estate industry and publishers.

1854 Bliss moved with his wife Caroline, whom he had just married, to Batesville, Arkansas, where he worked for Cadastral Agency. He was a supporter of the Union, and had appeared as such at the beginning of the Civil War in Arkansas, a state of the Confederacy, in a difficult position as in 1862, Union troops in his home, located Bliss joined them. However, Batesville fell to the Confederacy again and his family had to flee to the North during his absence in the army because it was severely threatened by their Confederate citizens. Beginning in 1864 took Bliss as a delegate to a constitutional convention of the pro-Union citizens of Arkansas in part. In the new constitution, slavery was abolished and revoke the declaration of withdrawal of the state from the Union of 1861. This constitution was then naturally only in the area controlled by Union forces of the state. Under this constitution Calvin Bliss was elected the first Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas.

In 1865 Bliss brought his family back to Arkansas. In the meantime, he was also in Little Rock out a newspaper. Until 1868, he held the office of Lieutenant Governor, which was then abolished. Then he continued his previous activities, including several times went into financial difficulties. He died on 13 December 1891 in the town of Sweet Home in Pulaski County.