James Duane Doty

James Duane Doty ( born November 5, 1799 in Salem, Washington County, New York, † June 13, 1865 in Salt Lake City, Utah) was an American politician. He was a congressman and governor of Wisconsin and Utah Territory.

Early years

James Doty attended the local schools of his home in New York State. After a subsequent law degree, he moved in 1818 to Detroit in the Michigan Territory. There he began to work as a lawyer. At the same time he was friends with the territorial governor Lewis Cass, who helped him to a political rise in this area.

Political rise

Between 1823 and 1832 he was a federal judge for the northern area of the Michigan Territory. In 1824 he moved to Green Bay. During this time, he managed to make at least a basic level of law and order in the area. He sat down at that time and for the construction of a road from Green Bay to Chicago then the newly created one, which should then be continued to Prairie du Chien. Between 1833 and 1835 Doty was a member of the Territorial Parliament of Michigan. There he was instrumental in the creation of the new Wisconsin Territory. His reasoning for the creation of the new territory was the growing number of immigrants and the distance to the capital of Michigan Territory in Detroit.

After he had politically to enforce his plan in Washington, he hoped to be appointed by President Andrew Jackson for the first territorial governor of Wisconsin Territory. This but in his place appointed Henry Dodge, one of his political rival, Governor James Doty and began to speculate privately with country. It also plans to found the capital of Madison, which went back to his influence emerged. Between 1839 and 1841 he represented his territory in the U.S. House of Representatives before he was appointed in 1841 by President John Tyler but the territorial governor of Wisconsin.

Political career in Wisconsin

As Governor, he had a hard time against the followers of Henry Dodge, which almost blocked all of his proposals. In his previous term of office until 1844, he has a total of four attempts, let integrate the country as a state in the United States. In 1844 he was not re-elected. President Tyler opted for Nathaniel Tallmadge as the new governor. In 1846, when the accession of the area became apparent to the U.S., Doty was a member of the Constituent Assembly of Wisconsin. After the accession of Wisconsin was then completed with the U.S., Doty was elected 1849-1853 in the U.S. House of Representatives. Then he retired to private life in 1861 in the back, but remained a resident of Wisconsin.

Political career in Utah

In 1861 he returned to the political stage. The new President Abraham Lincoln appointed him this year for "Indian officer " for the Utah Territory. When the Territorial Governor Stephen S. Harding fell out in 1863 with the Mormons over the issue of polygamy and therefore had to give up his office, Doty was appointed by President Lincoln as the new governor. As governor succeeded Doty, to improve relations between the federal government and the Mormons again. Doty also strove for the establishment and development of a system of schools in Utah and wanted to negotiate with the Indians of the area. Shortly after it anyway clashed with the locals, Governor Doty died in June 1865 in the Official. He was buried in Salt Lake City.