Joseph L. Bristow

Joseph Little Bristow (* July 22, 1861 in Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Kentucky, † July 14, 1944 in Fairfax, Virginia ) was an American politician ( Republican), who represented the state of Kansas in the U.S. Senate.

At the age of twelve years, Joseph Bristow moved with his father from Kentucky to Fredonia, Kansas, where he attended the local schools. In 1886 he graduated from Baker University in Baldwin City; thereafter he worked until 1890 as a court clerk at the District Court of Douglas County. This year, he got into the newspaper business. He obtained in Salina appearing Daily Republican, for whom he also served as editor until 1895. He then took a job as a private secretary to Governor Edmund Morrill, a position he held until 1897. Later he owned the Ottawa Herald and the Salina Daily Republican -Journal more newspapers.

Politically active Bristow was the first time in 1894 as secretary of the Republican Party Committee of Kansas; the same position he held in 1898 again. From 1897 to 1905 he worked under Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt as Fourth Assistant Postmaster General for the Federal government. Finally, it was built in 1908 for Kansas elected to the U.S. Senate, where he remained on 4 March 1909 to 3 March 1915. During this time he was chairman of several committees; for re-election, he was not nominated by his party.

Bristow then said goodbye to retire. He worked as a farmer on his estate Ossian Hall, where he died in July 1944.