James Rood Doolittle

James Rood Doolittle ( born January 3, 1815 in Hampton, Washington County, New York, † July 23, 1897 in Providence, Rhode Iceland ) was an American politician of the Republican Party. From 1857 to 1869 he sat for the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. Senate.

Early years

Doolittle was born in Hampton, New York. In Middlebury, Vermont, he attended Middlebury Academy. At Hobart College, he studied law. He graduated in 1834 from the owner. He was admitted as a lawyer then in 1837. With a firm he started his own business in Rochester. Between 1847 and 1850 he served as District Attorney in Wyoming County. 1851 Doolittle moved by Racine, Wisconsin, where he worked as a judge 1853-1856.

Career as a Senator

By repealing the Missouri Compromise Doolittle was a member of the Democratic Party. Circa 1856 he switched to the Republicans. 1856 Doolittle was then elected as a Republican for the state of Wisconsin in the Federal Senate, the re-election once succeeded 1862.

During his tenure as Senator Doolittle was Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs. Together with his colleague Jacob Collamer of Vermont, he represented the minority for the Mason Report, which examined the raid by John Brown on the town of Harpers Ferry.

In the American Civil War Doolittle support the policy of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. Also decided how he supported Lincoln, he represented the interests of Wisconsin in the Capitol. During the summer 1865, he visited the Indians west of the Mississippi River as chairman of a joint special committee, which was tasked with an investigation into the condition of the Indian tribes and their treatment by the civil and military authorities of the United States. The Committee then divided into several sub-committees to simultaneously carry out investigations in several regions. Doolittle was involved in the investigation of Indian Affairs in the U.S. State of Kansas, the Indian Territory and what is now Colorado. The committee's report entitled The Condition of the Tribes was submitted to the Senate on January 26, 1867. Doolittle played a prominent role in the debate on the various war and reconstruction measures and the protection of the federal government, but he was intent on getting to the fact that the split Confederate States despite everything always be a part of the Union. He was strongly opposed to the introduction of the 15th Amendments.

Later years

After Doolittle was retired from the Senate, he was a candidate in 1871 for the governorship of Wisconsin, but could not prevail against Cadwallader C. Washburn itself. Then he retired finally retired from politics.

In Chicago, he regained foot. First, as a lawyer, and later as president and professor at the newly founded University of Chicago.

Doolittle died in 1897 in Providence, Rhode Iceland. He was buried in the Mount Cemetery in Racine.

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