Friday January 16, 2009
01-16-2009 CRAPO MEETS WITH ENERGY SECRETARY-DESIGNATE CHU
Washington, DC – Idaho Senator Mike Crapo discussed issues relating to the Idaho National Laboratory during a meeting with Dr. Steven Chu, President-Elect...(More)
01-15-2009 BIPARTISAN GROUP OF SENATORS CALL FOR STIMULUS FUNDS TO CLEAN-UP NUCLEAR SITES
WASHINGTON, D.C.—A bipartisan group of eight U.S. Senators today called for $6 billion in economic recovery funds to be dedicated to the cleanup...(More)
01-15-2009 CRAPO VOTES AGAINST RELEASING UNPSENT $350 BILLION OF TARP FUNDING
Washington, DC – Idaho Senator Mike Crapo voted in favor of a resolution today disapproving the release of the remaining $350 billion under the...(More)
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Fred T. Dubois, served from 1891 to 1897, and 1901 to 1907
Fred T. Dubois was born in Palestine, Crawford County, Illinois on May 29, 1851. He attended the public schools and graduated from Yale College in 1872. He was the secretary of the Board of Railway and Warehouse Commissioners of Illinois from 1875 to 1876.
He moved to the Idaho Territory in 1880 and engaged in business. He was a United States Marshal of Idaho from 1882 until 1886. He was then elected as a Republican Delegate from the Territory of Idaho to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses and served from March 4, 1887, to July 3, 1890.
He was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1891, to March 3, 1897. He was an unsuccessful Silver Republican candidate for reelection to the United States Senate in 1896. During his tenure in the Senate he served as chairman of the Committee on Public Lands (Fifty-fourth Congress).
He was elected as a Silver Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1901, to March 3, 1907. Shortly after his election to the Senate as a Silver Republican he became a Democrat and took up his residence in Washington, D.C. He was not a candidate for reelection in 1907.
He was appointed civilian member of the Board of Ordnance and Fortifications in 1918 and served until 1920. He was appointed by President Calvin Coolidge to the International Joint Commission created to prevent disputes regarding the use of the boundary waters between the United States and Canada from 1924 to 1930.
He died in Washington, D.C. on February 14, 1930, and was buried in the Grove City Cemetery in Blackfoot, Idaho.
Bibliography
Cook, Rufus G. 'The Political Suicide of Senator Fred T. Dubois of Idaho.' Pacific Northwest Quarterly 60 (October 1969): 193-98; Graff, Leo W., Jr. The Senatorial Career of Fred T. Dubois of Idaho, 1890-1907. New York: Garland Publishing Co., 1988.
Photos provided by the Idaho State Historical Society. Biographical information compiled by Congressional Research Service.