biography
| name: |
Carey, Joseph Maull
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pronunciation:
[kairee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1845–1924)
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| biography:
| US senator, born in Milton, Delaware, USA. A prosperous rancher and a judge on the Supreme Court of Wyoming (1872–6), he was elected territorial representative to Congress (Republican, Wyoming, 1885–90). Having introduced the bill for admitting Wyoming as a state, he then became its first US senator (1890–5) and finally its governor (Democrat, 1911–15). |
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