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Subject: Fw: BIO: JOSEPH BENSON FORAKER, Hamilton County, 1902
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 02:21:50 -0500


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Dianne L. Springer-Fulton

Oct 30 2000

JOSEPH BENSON FORAKER, Republican, of Cincinnati, was born July 5, 1846, on
a farm near Rainsboro, Highland County, Ohio; enlisted July 14, 1862, as
private in Company A, Eighty-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with
which organization he served until the close of the war, at which time he
held the rank of first lieutenant and brevet captain; was graduated from
Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., July 1, 1869; was admitted to the bar and
entered upon the practice of the law at Cincinnati, Ohio, October 14, 1869;
was elected judge of the superior court of Cincinnati in April, 1879;
resigned on account of ill health May 1, 1882; was the Republican candidate
for governor of Ohio in 1883, but was defeated; was elected to the office in
1885, and re-elected in 1887; was again nominated for governor and defeated
in 1889; was chairman of the Ohio delegation in the convention of 1884 and
1888, and presented to both of these conventions the name of Hon. John
Sherman for n!
omination for the Presidency; in the conventions of 1892 and 1896 served as
chairman of the committee on resolutions, and as such reported the platform
each time to the convention; presented the name of William McKinley to the
convention of 1896 for nomination to the presidency; was elected United
States Senator, January 15, 1896, to succeed Calvin S. Brice, and took his
seat March 4, 1897. His term will expire March 3, 1903.

This bio was found on page 60, in a book titled "The Ohio Hundred Year Book,
1803-1902, compiled by Elliot Howard Gilkey, Published by Fred J. Heer,
State Printer, Columbus, OH 1901.

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