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Dwight Townsend

Dwight Townsend

American politician

Dwight Townsend (September 26, 1826 – October 29, 1899) was a U.S. Representative from New York. He became chairman of the Bankers' and Merchants' Telegraph Company, competitor of the Western Union

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Biography

Born in New York City, Townsend was educated at Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School.[1] He worked in the sugar refining business, and was active in other ventures including the Equitable Life Assurance Society and the Bankers' and Merchants' Telegraph Company.[2][3][4]

Townsend was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Henry G. Stebbins and served from December 5, 1864, to March 3, 1865.[1] During this term, Townsend voted "nay" (the minority position) on the question of adopting the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.[5]

Townsend was elected to the Forty-second Congress (March 4, 1871 – March 3, 1873).[1] He did not run for reelection, and resumed his former business pursuits.[1]

Death and burial

He died in New York City on October 29, 1899.[6] He was interred at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    Joint Committee on Printing, U.S. Congress (1928). Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1927. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 1623 – via Google Books.
  2. [2]
    Ohio Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs, Annual Report, 1888, page 1170
  3. [3]
    The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer, Death notice, Dwight Townsend, November 4, 1899, page 297
  4. [4]
    Equitable Life Assurance Society, The First Fifty Years of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, 1909, page 19
  5. [5]
    Hart, Albert Bushnell, ed. (1901). American History Told by Contemporaries: Welding of the Nation, 1845-1900. New York, NY: The MacMillan Company. p. 467.
  6. [6]
    New York Times, Death List of a Day: Dwight Townsend, October 30, 1899

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