biography
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| (1833–1914)
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| biography:
| US senator and governor, born in Bethel Co, Pennsylvania, USA. A civil engineer, he enlisted in Kansas regiments during the Civil War (1861–5), buying a plantation in Arkansas afterwards. As Arkansas governor (Republican, 1868–71), he attacked the Ku Klux Klan and issued $6 900 000 in bonds for railroad construction. Indicted for corruption, but never convicted, he served in the US Senate (Republican, Arkansas, 1871–7), later becoming US ambassador to Mexico (1897–1905). |
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