Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver
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United States Senator from Iowa |
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In office August 22, 1900 – October 15, 1910 |
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| Preceded by | John H. Gear |
| Succeeded by | Lafayette Young |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa's 10th district |
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In office March 4, 1889 – August 22, 1900 |
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| Preceded by | Adoniram J. Holmes |
| Succeeded by | James P. Conner |
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February 6, 1858 Kingwood, Virginia (now West Virginia) |
| Died | October 15, 1910 (aged 52) Fort Dodge, Iowa |
| Political party | Republican |
Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver (February 6, 1858 – October 15, 1910) was a Republican orator, U.S. Representative, then U.S. Senator from Iowa at the turn of the 20th century. In 1900 and 1908 Republican National Conventions, he was promoted as a vice-presidential candidate, but he was never chosen.
Dolliver was born in 1858 near Kingwood in Preston County, a Virginia county that would refuse to join the Confederacy and would instead remain in the Union as part of the new state of West Virginia. He attended the public schools and graduated from the West Virginia University at Morgantown in 1876. After studying law, Dolliver was admitted to the bar in 1878, and commenced practice in Fort Dodge, Iowa. He served as city solicitor of Fort Dodge from 1880 to 1887.
In 1884, as a twenty-six-year-old, Dolliver received national attention for his skills as an orator, when campaigning around the nation on behalf of the Republican presidential candidate James G. Blaine. A famous political quotation is attributed to Dolliver. Referring to his adopted state's traditional allegiance with the Republican Party, Dolliver (son of a Methodist minister) said, "Iowa will go Democratic when Hell goes Methodist."
In 1888, Dolliver challenged the incumbent congressman for Iowa's 10th congressional district, Adoniram J. Holmes, for the Republican nomination. After 110 ballots in the district nominating convention, Dolliver won. He easily won the general election, and began to represent in north-central Iowa in the United States House of Representatives in 1889. He was re-elected to the House five times. He served as chairman of the House Committee on Expenditures in the Fifty-sixth Congress.
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