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JAMES HARLAN (1820-1899)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 954 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAMES See also:HARLAN (1820-1899)  , See also:American politician, was See also:born in See also:Clark See also:county, See also:Illinois, on the 26th of See also:August 182o . He graduated from See also:Indiana See also:Asbury (now De Pauw) University in 1845, was See also:president (1846-1847) of the newly founded and See also:short-lived See also:Iowa See also:City See also:College, studied See also:law, was first See also:superintendent of public instruction in Iowa in 1847-1848, and was president of Iowa Wesleyan University in 1853-1855 . He took a prominent See also:part in organizing the Republican party in Iowa, and was a member of the See also:United States See also:Senate from 1855 to 1865, when he became secretary of the interior . He had been a delegate to the See also:peace See also:convention in 1861, and from 1861 to 1865 was chairman of the Senate See also:committee on public lands . He disapproved of President See also:Johnson's conservative reconstruction policy, retired from the See also:cabinet in August 1866, and from 1867 to 1893 was again a member of the United States Senate . In 1866 he was a delegate to the See also:loyalists' convention at See also:Philadelphia . One of his See also:principal speeches in the Senate was that which he made in See also:March 1871 in reply to See also:Sumner's and See also:Schurz's attack on President See also:Grant's Santo Domingan policy . He was presiding See also:judge of the See also:court of commissioners of See also:Alabama claims (1882-1885) . He died in See also:Mount Pleasant, Iowa, on the 5th of See also:October 1899 .

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