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HENRY LAURENS DAWES (1816-1903)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 873 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:LAURENS See also:DAWES (1816-1903)  , See also:American lawyer, was See also:born at Cummington, See also:Massachusetts, on the 3oth of See also:October 1816 . After graduating at Yale in 1839, he taught for a See also:time at See also:Greenfield, See also:Mass., and also edited The Greenfield See also:Gazette . In 1842 he was admitted to the See also:bar and began the practice of See also:law at See also:North See also:Adams, where for a time he conducted The Transcript . He served in the Massachusetts See also:House of Representatives in 1848–1849 and in 1852, in the See also:state See also:Senate in 185o, and in the Massachusetts constitutional See also:convention in 1853 . From 1853 to 1857 he was See also:United States See also:district See also:attorney for the western district of Massachusetts; and from 1857–1875 he was a Republican member of the See also:national House of Representatives . In 1875 he succeeded See also:Charles See also:Sumner as senator from Massachusetts, serving until 1893 . During this See also:long See also:period of legislative activity he served in the House on the committees on elections, ways and means, and appropriations, took a prominent See also:part in the See also:anti-See also:slavery and reconstruction See also:measures during and after the See also:Civil See also:War, in See also:tariff legislation, and in the See also:establishment of a See also:fish See also:commission and the inauguration of daily See also:weather reports . In the Senate he was chairman of the See also:committee on See also:Indian affairs, and gave much See also:attention to the enactment of See also:laws for the benefit of the See also:Indians . On leaving the Senate, in 1893, he became chairman of the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes (sometimes called the See also:Dawes Indian Commission),and served in this capacity for ten years, negotiating with the tribes for the extinction of the communal See also:title to their See also:land and for the See also:dissolution of the tribal governments, with the See also:object of making the tribes a constituent part of the United States.' Dawes died at See also:Pittsfield, Mass., on the 5th of See also:February 1903 .

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