Dudley C. Haskell

Dudley Chase Haskell
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Kansas's 2nd district
In office
March 4, 1877 – December 16, 1883
Preceded by John R. Goodin
Succeeded by Edward H. Funston
Member of the Kansas House of Representatives
In office
1872
1875–1876
Personal details
Born March 23, 1842
Springfield, Vermont, USA
Died December 16, 1883(1883-12-16) (aged 41)
Washington, D.C., USA
Political party Republican
Profession Politician, Merchant

Dudley Chase Haskell (March 23, 1842 – December 16, 1883) was a nineteenth-century politician and merchant from Kansas. He was the grandfather of Otis Halbert Holmes.

He is the namesake of Haskell County in southwestern Kansas.[1]

Biography

Born in Springfield, Vermont, Haskell moved to Lawrence, Kansas with his parents in 1855. He attended schools back in Springfield in 1857 and 1858, engaged in business as a shoe merchant and followed the Pike's Peak Gold Rush in 1859, residing in Pikes Peak, Colorado until 1861. During the Civil War, Haskell served as an assistant to the quartermaster of the Union Army in Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas and the Indian Territory in 1861 and 1862. He left the army and entered Williston’s Seminary in Easthampton, Massachusetts in 1863 and graduated from Yale College in 1865. Afterward, he returned to Lawrence, Kansas, engaged in the shoe business from 1865 to 1867 and was a member of the Kansas House of Representatives in 1872, 1875 and 1876, serving as Speaker of the House in 1876. Haskell was elected a Republican to the United States House of Representatives in 1876, serving from 1877 until his death in Washington, D.C. on December 16, 1883. There, he served as chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs from 1881 to 1883. He was interred in Oak Hill Cemetery in Lawrence, Kansas.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. Govt. Print. Off. p. 152.
United States House of Representatives
Preceded by
John R. Goodin		 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Kansas's 2nd congressional district
March 4, 1877 – December 16, 1883 		Succeeded by
Edward H. Funston
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