biography
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| lived:
| (1835–1933)
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| biography:
| US governor, born in Rockland, Maine, USA. He trained at West Point (1861), and saw continuous action, distinguishing himself at the First Battle of Bull Run, Gettysburg, and Petersburg. Governor of the Mississippi military district (1868–70), he served in the US Senate (Republican, Mississippi, 1870–4). Returning as governor of Mississippi (1874–6), he was unable to quell widespread disorder, including the Vicksburg riots, and resigned when threatened with impeachment. He moved to New York City, investing in Minnesota flour mills and manufacturing in Lowell, MD. As a volunteer brigadier general, he saw service in Cuba during the Spanish-American War (1898), retiring later to Lowell. |
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