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James Doolittle was born on January 3, 1815 in Hampton Township, Washington County, New York, United States; the eldest child of Reuben Doolittle of Colonial and English stock and Sarah (Rood) Doolittle.
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James Doolittle was born on January 3, 1815 in Hampton Township, Washington County, New York, United States; the eldest child of Reuben Doolittle of Colonial and English stock and Sarah (Rood) Doolittle.
Reared on a farm in western New York, he obtained his preliminary education in the rural school. He graduated from Geneva (now Hobart) College in 1834.
In 1837 he was admitted to the bar in Rochester. He began to practise in Rochester, but four years later settled at Warsaw, New York, where from 1847 to 1850 he was district attorney of Wyoming County. He also took a prominent part in politics as a Democrat. In 1844 he campaigned extensively for Polk, and at the New York state convention of 1847 he wrote the “corner-stone resolution” in which “the democracy of New York declare their uncompromising hostility to the extension of slavery into territory now free, or which may be hereafter acquired by any action of the government of the United States. ” This became the essential plank in the Free-Soil platform of 1848 and, in modified phraseology, in the Republican platform of 1856. Doolittle remained a leader of the Barnburner faction of the Democratic party until 1856, except that he supported Van Buren in 1848. Meanwhile (1851) he settled in Racine, Wisconsin, and two years later was elected judge of the first judicial circuit. In 1856 he identified himself with the Republican party. He was elected, as a Republican, to the United States Senate in 1857 and served till March 4, 1869.
His career in politics divides sharply into two periods—before the death of Lincoln and after that event. Although a “state-rights” Republican, prominent in the movement which resulted in Wisconsin’s nullification of the Fugitive-Slave Law, he became as senator one of the stanchest and ablest proponents of the doctrine of no compromise with the slave states. Like Carl Schurz, Byron Paine, and other Wisconsin Republicans, he was determined to carry out the party platform, restricting slavery rigorously within the states where it existed under state law. This he believed to be the constitutional method. He was a close personal friend and adviser of Lincoln. Early in 1864 he addressed at Springfield, Illinois, a great mass-meeting called to decide whether or not Lincoln must be superseded.
Johnson’s struggle with Congress over reconstruction brought Doolittle into sharp collision with the radical Republicans, who, as he believed, were violating the Constitution in keeping states out of the Union. He ably supported the President, arguing that Johnson was merely carrying into execution Lincoln’s policies. On the impeachment question he voted for acquittal; in the presidential canvass of 1868 he supported Seymour against Grant. The Wisconsin legislature, in 1867, called for Doolittle’s resignation, which he refused. In 1869 he retired to make his home in Racine, but opened a law office in Chicago where he practised law extensively almost to the day of his death at the age of eighty-two.
His so-called “betrayal” of the Republican party ended his political career. As a Democrat he was defeated for governor of Wisconsin in 1871, for congressman from his congressional district twice, and once for judge of his judicial circuit. His “Johnsonizing” was bitterly resented, but leading Republicans who had known him long pronounced his motives pure. The Constitution he construed with Jeffersonian strictness.
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Doolittle tended to “fundamentalism” in religion, lecturing on the fulfilment of Bible prophecies.
Doolittle took a prominent part in politics as a Democrat.
Quotations: “I believe in God Almighty! Under Him I believe in Abraham Lincoln. ”
Doolittle was an outstanding personality, physically and mentally. His presence on any platform guaranteed an interested audience. His voice was remarkably fine and so powerful that he could address 20, 000 persons with perfect success. He was accounted a great lawyer, was a wide reader and popular lecturer on Bible subjects. He was in great demand for speeches on special occasions and on diverse social, religious, and economic themes. His nature was strongly emotional and somewhat sentimental. In practical politics he was keen, shrewd, masterful, winning the encomium of so skilled a political tactician as E. W. (Boss) Keyes. His personality radiated good will and compelled attention.
In 1837 Doolittle married Mary L. Cutting.