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Jacob Harold Gallinger late a senator from New Hampshire. Memorial addresses delivered in the Senate and House of representatives of the United States, Sixty-fifth Congress, third session This book, "Memorial addresses", by Jacob Harold Gallinger, is a replication of a book originally published before 1919. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.
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Jacob Harold Gallinger was the son of Jacob and Catharine (Cook) Gallinger. He was descended from Michael Gallinger, a German who settled in New York in 1754 and later removed to Canada. He was born on March 28, 1837, on a farm near Cornwall, Ontario, and was the fourth in a large family of small means.
Gallinger was apprenticed at the age of twelve to a printer and spent four years at Cornwall learning the trade. After a year in Ogdensburg, New York, and about the same period in a newspaper office in his native town, having saved a little money, he resolved to study medicine.
In 1855, he entered the Medical Institute of Cincinnati, Ohio, receiving his degree three years later. In 1868, he also received the degree of M. D. from the New York Homoeopathic Medical College. During his course in Cincinnati, he supported himself by working at his old trade.
After graduation, he spent two years in further study and European travel, and in 1860, began practice at Keene, New Hampshire.
In 1862, Gallinger moved to Concord where he soon built up a large general practice. For the remainder of his life, he was identified with a variety of interests in that city.
In spite of absorption in professional work, he soon took an active part in municipal politics, displaying from the start an aptitude for party management which was destined to make him one of the most powerful political leaders in the history of the state.
He was a member of the New Hampshire House in 1872-73 and in 1891, and of the Senate from 1878 to 1881, being president of the latter body during his last two terms. He took a prominent part in the constitutional convention of 1876.
In 1882, he became chairman of the Republican state committee, a position which he held at varying intervals for a total of eighteen years and in which he displayed ability which made him a match even for the redoubtable William E. Chandler, with whom he repeatedly clashed.
In 1884, he was elected to Congress and as a member of the House (1885 - 89) became known as an indefatigable worker, his attention to claims and pensions earning the gratitude of many.
He gained favorable notice by speeches against free silver and the Democratic tariff policy, but the principle of rotation, then strong in New Hampshire, forced his retirement at the expiration of his second term. In the same year, he engaged in an unsuccessful contest with Chandler for the United States senatorship.
After two years, apparently finding his professional work less attractive than politics, he again entered the senatorial contest, this time successfully, in spite of determined opposition from Senator Chandler and other leaders.
From 1891 until his death, he remained a dominant power in the state, his repeated réélections to the Senate, the last one by popular vote, demonstrating both his political ability and his personal popularity. In the upper chamber he maintained his reputation as a tireless worker on committees and to the last took an active part in proceedings on the floor.
Probably, Gallinger's greatest services, however, were rendered as chairman of the committee on the District of Columbia, services which offered no direct political reward but which are gratefully remembered by the inhabitants of the District and were commemorated by Congress in the establishment of the Gallinger Hospital. Announcing that he would not be satisfied until Washington became the most beautiful city in the world, he took an active and constructive part in legislation affecting its physical renovation and beautification. He was the author of the District medical practice act which brought about the suppression of the cruder forms of quackery that had flourished in the national capital, and handled, efficiently and intelligently, the enormous amount of routine legislation on District affairs.
(Jacob Harold Gallinger late a senator from New Hampshire....)
Gallinger was a strong partisan, and as an orthodox Republican supported high tariff, sound money, and in general those policies which appealed to the financial and industrial interests of the Eastern states.
Intensely conservative, he had scant interest in most reforms or humanitarian projects. Notable exceptions, however, were prohibition and woman’s suffrage; at the memorial services of January 19, 1919, his junior colleague, Senator Hollis, declared that Gallinger’s support had expedited by several years the adoption of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Amendments, which by that time seemed assured.
He expressed profound contempt for civil service reform and similar types of “Sunday school politics”.
He was a stickler for senatorial prerogatives, his bitter quarrel with President Harrison over patronage, and, late in life, his successful fight against President Wilson’s nomination of George Rublee for the Federal Trade Commission, being typical of the man.
When the break between the “Old Guard” and “Insurgent” wings of the party developed, Gallinger, truculent and unabashed, took his place with the former group. Burly, pugnacious, self-confident, he was caricatured as the very embodiment of “stand-pattism. ”
He struggled, in season and out, for the establishment of a merchant marine, and in his last years gave ungrudging support to the war policy of the Wilson administration.
Gallinger was a member of the New Hampshire State House of Representatives, (1872-73), a member of the New Hampshire State Senate, (1878-80).
Gallinger was a competent parliamentarian and an able, though hardly an outstanding, debater.
On August 3, 1860, Gallinger married Mary Anna Bailey of Salisbury, New Hampshire.
1805 - 12 November 1886
Died on 8 March 1857.
16 November 1834 - 25 September 1927
1848 - 1893
3 February 1849 - 31 March 1924
3 June 1839 - 1 January 1912
22 July 1832 - 22 November 1901
13 August 1835 - 2 February 1907
26 July 1866 - 7 March 1957
Died on 26 October 1909.
17 July 1872 - 12 July 1911
