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Joseph Clay Styles Blackburn

Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn
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United States Senator
from Kentucky
In office
March 4, 1885 – March 4, 1897
Preceded by John S. Williams
Succeeded by William J. Deboe
In office
March 4, 1901 – March 4, 1907
Preceded by William Lindsay
Succeeded by Thomas H. Paynter
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Kentucky's 7th district
In office
March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1885
Preceded by James B. Beck
Succeeded by William C. P. Breckinridge
Member of the Kentucky House of Representatives
In office
1871–1875
3rd Military Governor of Panama Canal Zone
In office
April 1, 1907 – December 4, 1909
Appointed by Theodore Roosevelt
Preceded by Richard Reid Rogers
Succeeded by Maurice Hudson Thatcher
Personal details
Born (1838-10-01)October 1, 1838
Spring Station, Kentucky
Died September 12, 1918(1918-09-12) (aged 79)
Washington, D.C.
Political party Democratic

Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn (October 1, 1838 – September 12, 1918) was a Democratic Representative and Senator from Kentucky. He was the younger brother of Kentucky governor Luke P. Blackburn. Blackburn, a skilled and spirited orator, was also a prominent trial lawyer known for his skill at swaying juries.

Blackburn was born on October 1, 1838 near Spring Station, Kentucky.

He attended Sayres Institute in Frankfort and graduated from Centre College in Danville in 1857. He studied law in Lexington and was admitted to the bar in 1858. He practiced in Chicago until 1860 when he returned to Woodford County, Kentucky and entered the Confederate Army as a private in 1861.

A staff officer, by the end of the Civil War Blackburn had attained the rank of lieutenant colonel. After the war he settled in Arkansas where he was engaged as a lawyer and a planter in Desha County until 1868 when he returned to Kentucky and opened law offices in Versailles.

He was a member of the State house of representatives from 1871 to 1875. He was then elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1875 - March 3, 1885). He was the chairman of the Committee on the District of Columbia (Forty-fifth Congress) and the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War (Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses).


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