Background
Joseph was born on October 19, 1835 in the village of Dolphsburg, near Watkins, New York, United States. He was the son of Chester V and Eliza (Vanderbilt) Dolph, both of New England ancestry.
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A tariff to protect American labor. Speech of Hon. Joseph N. Dolph of Oregon in the Senate of the United States, Monday, March 12, 1888
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Fortifications and Their Armament: Speech of Hon. Joseph N. Dolph, of Oregon, in the Senate of the United States, Wednesday, July 28, 1886 (Classic Reprint)
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The farmer and the tariff: speech of Hon. J. N. Dolph, of Oregon, in the Senate of the United States, Mar. 29, 1890
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Joseph Norton Dolph
Edit ProfileEducation
Dolph alternated short terms of attendance at the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary at Lima with the teaching of country schools and the study of law until admitted to the bar at Binghamton in 1861.
Career
At sixteen Dolph left the farm to become a lock-tender on the Chemung Canal.
In 1862 he enlisted in a military company bound for Oregon and reached Portland, in October 1862.
Upon settling in Portland he had at once become a law partner of John H. Mitchell, a recent arrival but already a leading attorney of the city and in 1872 elected a United States senator.
The commerce and business of Portland were booming at this period as the result of the opening of new mines in the upper Columbia River basin; many business corporations were formed, and the railroad era began.
Mitchell & Dolph shared in this prosperity and soon reached a position of leadership in the social, political, and financial life of the city and state.
The first great railroad promoter of the state, Ben Holladay, became their client and they entered the legislature where they could better serve his interests.
In the Senate his career was creditable though his name is not associated with any legislation of lasting importance.
He was reelected without opposition in 1888, but his stand in opposition to free silver so angered the numerous supporters of that cause in Oregon that he failed of reelection in 1894.
Achievements
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Dolph was city attorney for Portland, United States district attorney, chairman of the Republican state committee and four times state senator. At the same time he had become a director in and the attorney for the transportation companies organized by Henry Villard and was vice-president of the latter’s Northern Pacific Railroad when his turn to be elected United States senator came in 1882 at the end of a session of the legislature and after a long deadlock.
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The farmer and the tariff: speech of Hon. J. N. Dolph, of Oregon, in the Senate of the United States, Mar. 29, 1890
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Fortifications: speech
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Fortifications and Their Armament: Speech of Hon. Joseph N. Dolph, of Oregon, in the Senate of the United States, Wednesday, July 28, 1886 (Classic Reprint)
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A tariff to protect American labor. Speech of Hon. Joseph N. Dolph of Oregon in the Senate of the United States, Monday, March 12, 1888
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The farmer and the tariff: speech of Hon. J. N. Dolph, of Oregon, in the Senate of the United States, Mar. 29, 1890
Politics
Dolph was an ardent supporter of protection and other party measures, yet generally voted with the more liberal wing of the Republican party on bills that involved a concession to the reform spirit of the time.
He voted for the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 and the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890.
He defended the woman’s suffrage amendment and spoke in favor of a proposed amendment giving Congress control of marriage and divorce. He voted for the Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890, though opposed to free silver, and somewhat inconsistently voted against its repeal when that was called for by President Cleveland.
Personality
Quotes from others about the person
"The only member in Congress from the Pacific Coast who stood unequivocally for the gold standard. "
Connections
In October 1864 Dolph married Augusta E. Mulkey.
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Republican