Dudley C. Haskell

Dudley Chase Haskell ( born March 23, 1842 in Springfield, Vermont, † December 16, 1883 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1877 and 1883 he represented the state of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1855 Dudley Haskell moved with his parents to Lawrence, Kansas. In the years 1857 and 1858, he returned to Vermont to attend public schools in Springfield. After that he acted with shoes. Between 1859 and 1861, Haskell involved in the gold rush in Colorado. During this time he lived in the vicinity of Pikes Peak. At the beginning of the Civil War, he was until 1862 the staff of the quartermaster of the Union Army, which was responsible for the states of Missouri, Arkansas and Kansas. Then he resigned from the military service to continue his education. In 1863 he attended the Williston Seminary in Massachusetts. Subsequently, he studied until 1865 at Yale College, now Yale University. Later he returned to Lawrence, Kansas, where he again sold between 1865-1867 shoes.

Haskell was a member of the Republican Party. In the years 1872, 1875 and 1876, he was elected to the House of Representatives from Kansas, which he became president in 1876. In the congressional elections of 1876, which were held all across the state in Kansas, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he entered on March 4, 1877, the successor of John R. Goodin. After three re- elections he could remain until his death on December 16, 1883 in Congress. From March 1881 to March 1883 he was chairman of the Indian Committee. Dudley Haskell was buried in Lawrence. After a by-election from his position went to Edward H. Funston.