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Elihu Benjamin Washburne was born on September 23, 1816 in Livermore, Maine. He was one of seven brothers, of whom four sat in Congress from as many different states.
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Elihu Benjamin Washburne was born on September 23, 1816 in Livermore, Maine. He was one of seven brothers, of whom four sat in Congress from as many different states.
He received a common school education, graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1839, and was soon afterwards admitted to the bar. In 1885 Washburne received the honorary degree of LL. D. from Bowdoin College.
In 1840 he removed to Galena, Illinois. He was elected to Congress in 1852, where, first as a Whig and afterwards as a Republican, he represented his district continuously until 1869, taking a prominent part in debate, and earning the name " watch-dog of the Treasury " by his consistent and vigorous opposition to extravagant and unwise appropriations.
He was reelected eight times, and represented northwestern Illinois from 1853 to 1869. While in Congress, Washburne was chairman of the Committee on Commerce (34th Congress, and 36th through 40th Congresses), and the Committee on Appropriations (40th Congress).
In 1854 Washburne supported Abraham Lincoln's unsuccessful candidacy for the United States Senate. In the mid-1850s the Whig Party dissolved, and the Republican Party was founded as the major anti-slavery party. Washburne joined the Republican Party, and in 1856 supported its first candidate for president, John C. Frémont.
Washburne backed Lincoln's unsuccessful candidacy for the United States Senate in 1858. In 1860, Washburne enthusiastically supported Lincoln's successful presidential campaign.
He contributed much to aid General Grant during the Civil War, and the latter of becoming President made Washburne secretary of slate. On account of ill-health, however, he served only twelve days, and was then appointed minister to France, where during the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune he won much distinction as protector of German and other foreign citizens in Paris. He was the only foreign minister who remained at his post during the Commune.
In 1877 he retired from public life, and died in Chicago on the 22nd of October 1887. He published Recollections of a Minister to France (2 vols. , 1887), and edited The Edwards Papers (1884).
He was buried at Greenwood Cemetery in Galena.
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He was elected to Congress in 1852, where, first as a Whig and afterwards as a Republican, he represented his district continuously until 1869, taking a prominent part in debate, and earning the name " watch-dog of the Treasury " by his consistent and vigorous opposition to extravagant and unwise appropriations.
Washburne became a leader of the Radical Republicans, those most ardently opposed to slavery, and was among the original proponents of racial equality. As a congressman, he served on the Joint Committee on Reconstruction which drafted the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. After the Civil War, Washburne advocated that large plantations be divided up to provide compensatory property for freed slaves.
As a leader of the Radical Republicans, Washburne opposed the Reconstruction policies of President Andrew Johnson and supported African American suffrage and civil rights.
Washburne was a tall, broad shouldered man, having light gray eyes. Washburne was respected as a person of honesty and seriousness. Washburne, when he moved west to Galena, vowed he would not drink, smoke, play cards, or attend the theater. After his marriage to Adele Gratiot in 1845, he adopted the practice of drinking a glass of wine with dinner.
On July 31, 1845, Washburne married Adele Gratiot, the niece of his law partner and the daughter of Colonel Henry Gratiot and Susan Hempstead Gratiot, members of one of Galena's most prominent families. The Washburnes had seven children including sons Gratiot, Hempstead, William P. , and Elihu B. Jr. , and daughters Susan and Marie L. The Washburne's marriage lasted 42 years.
Three of Washburne's brothers (Cadwallader C. Washburn, William D. Washburn, and Israel Washburn, Jr. ) also became politicians. His son, Hempstead Washburne, was the 32nd Mayor of Chicago serving from 1891 to 1893.
