DANIEL

See also:

• WOLSEY, THOMAS (c. 1475–1530)

WOLSEY

See also:

• DANIEL WOLSEY VOORHEES (1827-1897)

VOORHEES (1827-1897)  , American lawyer and political leader, was born in Butler county, Ohio, on the 26th of September 1827, of Dutch and Irish descent . During his infancy his parents removed to Fountain county, Indiana, near Veedersburg . He graduated at Indiana Asbury (now De Pauw) University, Greencastle, Indiana, in 1849; was admitted to the bar in 1850, and began to practise in Covington, Indiana, whence in 1857 he removed to Terre Haute . In 1858-6o he was U.S. district-attorney for Indiana; in 1861-66 and in 1869-73 he was a Democratic representative in Congress; and in 1897-97 he was a member of the U.S . Senate . During the Civil War he seems to have been affiliated with the Knights of the Golden Circle, but he was not so radical as Vallandigham and others . He was a member of the committee on finance throughout his service in the Senate, and his first speech in that body was a defence of the free coinage of silver and a plea for the preservation of the full legal tender value of greenback currency, though in 1893 he voted to repeal the silver purchase clause of the Sherman Act . He had an active part in bringing about the building of the new Congressional Library . He was widely known as an effective advocate, especially in jury trials . In allusion to his unusual stature he was called " the Tall Sycamore of the Wabash." He died in Washington, D.C., on the loth of April 1897 . Some of his speeches were published under the title, Forty Years of Oratory (2 vols., Indianapolis, Indiana, 1898), edited by his three sons and his daughter, Harriet C . Voorhees, and with a biographical sketch by T .

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