Marsh Giddings

Marsh Giddings ( born November 19, 1816 Fairfield County, Connecticut, † June 3, 1875 in Santa Fe, New Mexico ) was an American politician and from 1871 to 1875 Governor of New Mexico Territory.

Early years

At the age of 13 years Giddings moved with his parents in the Kalamazoo County, Michigan. Then he attended the Western Reserve College in Hudson ( Ohio). However, he made ​​no statements at this school. At the age of 21, he was elected Justice of the Peace for the town Richland Township in Michigan.

Political rise

In 1849, Giddings was elected to the House of Representatives from Michigan. Between 1860 and 1868 he was a judge in a probate court in Michigan. In 1864 he was one of the Republican electors in the presidential elections. Between 1866 and 1870 he was at the Republican National Committee. He was also a 1867 a committee to revise the state constitution of Michigan.

President Ulysses S. Grant appointed Giddings in 1870, the American consul in Calcutta in India. Gidding accepted and moved into a corresponding content. But he has never actually made ​​the trip to India. The reason he gave to his poor health. Then his party colleague Grant appointed him as the new territorial governor of New Mexico.

Territorial Governor of New Mexico

Upon his arrival in New Mexico, he found a wild and lawless land. He tried the ruling power with the help of the army to suppress, but realized that he had not the power to put the army on the march soon. Thus he was the violence and lawlessness against powerless. Giddings died later during his tenure and his Secretary of State William Gillet Ritch had until the arrival of his successor, Samuel Beach Axtell the governorship take over as acting. Since 1836 Marsh Giddings was married to Louisa Mills.

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