Background
Foulke, William Dudley was born on November 20, 1848 in New York, New York, United States. Son of Thomas and Hannah (Shoemaker) Foulke.
Foulke, William Dudley was born on November 20, 1848 in New York, New York, United States. Son of Thomas and Hannah (Shoemaker) Foulke.
Bachelor of Arts, Columbia, 1869, Bachelor of Laws, 1871, Master of Arts, 1872. Doctor of Laws, Earlham, 1906.
Admitted to bar, 1870. Removed to Indiana, 1876. Member Indiana Senate, 1883-1885.
Member United States Civ.
Service Commission, 1901-1903. Editor Evening Item, Richmond, Indiana, 1909-1912.
Chairman Suffrage Congress, Chicago Exposition, 1893. Formerly president American Woman’s Suffrage Association up to 1890.
Conducted investigations of the civil service as chairman special committee of National Civil Service Reform League.
President National Municipal League, 1910-1915. Member platform committee Progressive Party, 1912. President National Civil Service Reform League, 1923-1924.
Author: Life of Oliver P. Morton, 1899.
Fighting the Spoilsman, 1919. To-Day and Yesterday (poems), 1920.
A Hoosier Autobiography, 1922. Is Our Civilization Really Declining?, 1923.
A Random Record of Travel During Fifty Years, 1925.
Roosevelt and the Spoilsmen, 1925. Songs of Eventide, 1928. Earth’s Generations Pass (verse), 1930.
Lucius B. Swift, American Citizen—A Biography, 1930.
Home: Richmond, Indiana.
Member Indiana Senate, 1883-1885. Member United States Civ. Service Commission, 1901-1903.
Member platform committee Progressive Party, 1912.
Married Mary Taylor Reeves, 1872. Children: Caroline (wife of John F. Urie), Lydia (Mistress Stanley C. Hughes, deceased), Mary (Mistress James West. Morrisson), Arthur Dudley (deceased), Lucy Dudley (deceased), Gwendolen (Mistress Dudley Cates).