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See also:JOSEPH See also:BENSON See also:FORAKER (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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