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George Wallace Jones

John Carl Parish

出版	New Library Press.Net, 1912
主題	Political Science / GeneralPolitical Science / American Government / State
ISBN	07950247899780795024788
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=7CkeQQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

The early part of this book contains a biographical sketch by John Carl Parish. Parish also located and arranged the publication of an autobiography and recollections written by George Wallace Jones (1804-1896). George Wallace Jones, as a delegate to Congress from Michigan, helped secure the creation of the Territory of Wisconsin. Then, as delegate to Congress from the territory of Wisconsin, he helped secure the creation of the Territory of Iowa. He served as a United States Senator from iowa between 1848 and 1858, and then was the United States Minister to Bogotá, capital of New Granada Colombia by the time he arrived). It was while Jones was working in Washington to bring about the creation of the Territory of Iowa that he served as a second to Jonathan Cilley in a duel between Cilley and William J. Graves of Kentucky. Cilley was killed in the duel, and the Senate outlawed duels (although the bill failed to pass the House).