biography
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Foraker, Joseph Benson
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| lived:
| (1846–1917)
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| biography:
| US senator and governor, born in Rainsboro, Ohio, USA. A Civil War hero, he was a lawyer and judge in Ohio. He was elected a Republican governor of Ohio (1886–90) and a US Senator (1897–1908), but was accused of accepting money from Standard Oil and forced to resign. |
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