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FORAKER, JOSEPH BENSON (1846- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 628 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FORAKER, See also:JOSEPH See also:BENSON (1846- ) , See also:American See also:political See also:leader, was See also:born near Rainsboro, Highland See also:county,, See also:Ohio, on the 5th of See also:July 1846. He passed his See also:early See also:life on a See also:farm, enlisted as a private in the 89th Ohio Volunteer See also:Infantry in July 1862, served throughout the See also:Civil See also:War, for See also:part of thetime as an aide on the See also:staff of See also:General H. W. See also:Slocum; and in 1865 received a See also:captain's See also:brevet for " efficient services during the See also:campaigns in See also:North Carolina and See also:Georgia." After the war he spent two years at the Ohio Wesleyan University and two years at Cornell. In 1869 he was admitted to the Ohio See also:bar and began practice in See also:Cincinnati. He was a See also:judge of the Cincinnati See also:Superior See also:Court from 1879 to 1882. In 1883 he was the Republican See also:candidate for See also:governor of Ohio, but was defeated; in 1885 and 1887, however, he was elected, but was again defeated in 1889.. He then for eight years practised See also:law with See also:great success in Cincinnati. In 1896 he was elected See also:United States senator to succeed See also:Calvin S. Brice (1845-1898); in 1902 was re-elected and served until 1909. In the See also:Senate he was one of the aggressive Republican leaders, strongly supporting the See also:administration of See also:President M`Kinley (whose name he presented to the Republican See also:National Conventions of 1896 and 1900) in the debatespreceding, during, and immediately following the See also:Spanish-American War, and later, during the administration of President See also:Roosevelt, was conspicuous among Republican leaders for his See also:independence. He vigorously opposed various See also:measures advocated by the president, and led the opposition to the president's See also:summary See also:discharge of certain See also:negro trons after the See also:Brownsville See also:raid of the 13th of See also:August 1096 (see BROWNSVILLE, See also:Texas).

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