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'''Jacob Harold Gallinger''' (March 28, 1837 – August 17, 1918), was a [[United States Senator]] from [[New Hampshire]] who served as [[President pro tempore of the United States Senate|President pro tempore of the Senate]] in 1912 and 1913.
'''Jacob Harold Gallinger''' (March 28, 1837 – August 17, 1918), was a [[United States senator]] from [[New Hampshire]] who served as [[President pro tempore of the United States Senate|President pro tempore of the Senate]] in 1912 and 1913.


==Early life and career==
==Biography==
Jacob Harold Gallinger was born in [[Cornwall, Ontario]], [[Canada under British rule|British Canada]] on March 28, 1837. His father's family were German and his mother's was German American.<ref name="StateBuilders">{{Cite book|last=Willey|first=George Franklyn|url=https://archive.org/details/statebuildersan01compgoog|title=State Builders; An Illustrated Historical and Biographical Record of the State of New Hampshire at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century|publisher=New Hampshire Pub. Corp|year=1903|location=Manchester NH|page=[https://archive.org/details/statebuildersan01compgoog/page/n232 205]|oclc=7566342}}</ref>
[[File:Mrs Bailey Gallinger.jpg|thumb|left|Mrs. Bailey Gallinger]]


He was home-schooled from an early age.<ref name="StateBuilders" />
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Born in [[Cornwall, Ontario]], [[Canada under British rule|British Canada]], Gallinger moved to the U.S. at an early age and first worked as a printer. He studied medicine at the [[Cincinnati Eclectic Medical Institute]], from which he graduated in May 1858. He studied abroad for two years, and then returned to the United States and engaged in the practice of [[homeopathic medicine]] and surgery in [[Concord, New Hampshire]]. He was an active member of the [[American Institute of Homeopathy]] (AIH) from 1868–80, and throughout his political career, he was a forthright advocate of the homeopathic school of thought and practice. Besides the AIH, he was a member of many state and national medical societies and a frequent contributor to the journals of his profession. He was on the board of trustees of Columbia Hospital for Women, and a member of the board of visitors to Providence Hospital.


Gallinger moved to the U.S. at an early age and first worked as a printer.<ref name="StateBuilders" />
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He was elected to the [[New Hampshire House of Representatives]] and served from 1872 to 1873. He served as a member of the state [[constitutional convention (political meeting)|constitutional convention]] in 1876. He was then elected to the [[New Hampshire Senate]] and served from 1878 to 1880. He became [[State Surgeon General|surgeon general]] of New Hampshire, with the rank of [[brigadier general]], from 1879 to 1880. He was then elected as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] to the [[United States House of Representatives]], serving from March 4, 1885, to March 3, 1889, but declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1888.


== Medical career ==
After a brief stint returning to the New Hampshire House, Gallinger was elected to the United States Senate in 1891. He was reelected by the legislature without opposition in 1897, 1903 and 1909, and by popular vote in 1914, and served from March 4, 1891, until his death in [[Franklin, New Hampshire]] in 1918. He was chairman of the delegations from his state to the [[Republican National Convention]] of 1888, 1900, 1904 and 1908, and for a time was a member of the [[Republican National Committee]].
Gallinger studied medicine at the [[Eclectic medicine|Cincinnati Eclectic Medical Institute]] and graduated at the head of his class in May 1858.<ref name="StateBuilders" /> He studied abroad for three years, writing and working as a printer to cover his expenses.<ref name="StateBuilders" /> In 1861, he returned to the United States and engaged in the practice of [[homeopathic medicine]] and surgery in [[Keene, New Hampshire]] before moving to [[Concord, New Hampshire]] in April 1862.<ref name="StateBuilders" /> He practiced medicine actively until 1885.<ref name="StateBuilders" />


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He was an active member of the [[American Institute of Homeopathy]] from 1868 to 1880, and throughout his political career, he was a forthright advocate of the homeopathic school of thought and practice. Besides the AIH, he was a member of many state and national medical societies and a frequent contributor to the journals of his profession. He was on the board of trustees of Columbia Hospital for Women, and a member of the board of visitors to Providence Hospital.
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He was President pro tempore during the Sixty-second Congress and was also Republican Conference chairman. His additional achievements included chairman of the [[United States Senate Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard|Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard]], [[U.S. Senate Committee on Pensions|Committee on Pensions]], [[U.S. Senate Committee on the District of Columbia|Committee on the District of Columbia]], and chairman of the [[Joint Congressional Merchant Marine Commission|Merchant Marine Commission]].<ref>See: [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924032482600/cu31924032482600_djvu.txt ''Report of the Merchant Marine Commission, together with the testimony taken at the Hearings'', 1905, Vol. III. Hearings on the Southern Coast and at Washington, D.C. and General Index]</ref> He also was named a member of the [[National Forest Reservation Commission]], established by the [[Weeks Act]], the Senate version of which Gallinger had sponsored.<ref>[http://www.foresthistory.org/ASPNET/Policy/WeeksAct/Implementation.aspx Protection and Restoration]</ref>


== Early political career ==
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Gallinger received the honorary degree of [[Master of Arts|A.M.]] from [[Dartmouth College]] in 1885 and served as trustee of [[George Washington University]] for several years. He was interred at Blossom Hill Cemetery, Concord.


==Biography (State Builders)==
=== State legislature ===
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Gallinger was elected to the [[New Hampshire House of Representatives]] in 1872 and re-elected in 1873.<ref name="StateBuilders" /> He served as a member of the state [[constitutional convention (political meeting)|constitutional convention]] in 1876. He was then elected to the [[New Hampshire Senate]] and served from 1878 to 1880. In 1879, he was elected Senate President.<ref name="StateBuilders" />
'''(The subsequent text concerning Gallinger's life up until 1903 is derived from ''State Builders'', see note below)'''
[[File:Jacob Harold Gallinger, U.S. Senator from the State of New Hampshire, from State Builders.jpg|left|200px]]
United States Senator Jacob H. Gallinger has been for more than thirty years a conspicuous figure in the public life of his state. He was born March 28, 1837, at [[Cornwall, Ontario]], descended on the paternal side from German ancestry, and his mother being of American stock. At an early age with only the limited advantages of schooling possible to be had at his home, he was thrown upon his own resources and early displayed that unflagging industry which has been the chief instrument of his rise to favor in professional and public life.<ref name="StateBuilders">{{Cite book
| last = Willey
| first = George Franklyn
| title = State Builders; An Illustrated Historical and Biographical Record of the State of New Hampshire at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
| publisher = New Hampshire Pub. Corp
| location = Manchester NH
| year = 1903
| url = https://archive.org/details/statebuildersan01compgoog
| page = [https://archive.org/details/statebuildersan01compgoog/page/n232 205] |OCLC=7566342}}</ref>


He became [[State Surgeon General|surgeon general]] of New Hampshire under Governor [[Nathaniel Head|Natt Head]], with the rank of [[brigadier general]], from 1879 to 1880. In 1882, he was elected chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party and remained in that role until his resignation in 1890.<ref name="StateBuilders" />
As a youth he learned the printing trade and for a time published a newspaper. The printing-office was to him at once a source of livelihood and a school, and there he laid the foundations for that wide knowledge of men and affairs which has since been so marvelously extended in the course of his remarkable career as a public man.<ref name="StateBuilders"/>


=== United States House of Representatives ===
While still at work at the case he began the study of medicine, and in 1855 he entered a medical school at [[Cincinnati, Ohio]], whence he was graduated at the head of his class in 1858. Feeling, however, that he was not yet qualified for the active work of his profession, he devoted himself for the next three years to study and travel, finding means to defray his expenses by literary work and incidentally working at the printer's trade, and in 1861 he entered upon practice in the city of [[Keene, New Hampshire|Keene]], where he remained only a few months, removing to [[Concord, New Hampshire|Concord]] in April 1862, where for twenty-three years he was actively engaged in the practice of medicine and established a large and especially remunerative business.<ref name="StateBuilders"/>
In 1884, Gallinger was elected to the [[United States House of Representatives]], serving from March 4, 1885, to March 3, 1889, but declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1888.


In 1888, Gallinger served as chairman of the New Hampshire delegation to the [[1888 Republican National Convention|Republican National Convention]] at [[Chicago]], where he seconded the nomination of [[Benjamin Harrison]] of [[Indiana]] for president.
His aptitude for public affairs became early apparent, and in 1872 he held his first public office as member of the [[New Hampshire General Court|New Hampshire legislature]]. He was re-elected in 1873, and in 1876 was chosen a member of the [[New Hampshire Constitution|constitutional convention]]. In 1878 he was elected a member of the [[New Hampshire Senate|state senate]] and was chosen for a second term, serving in 1879 as president of that body. During the administration of [[Governor of New Hampshire|Governor]] [[Nathaniel Head|Natt Head]] he served upon the Chief Magistrate's staff as Surgeon-General. In 1882 he was chosen chairman of the [[New Hampshire Republican State Committee|Republican State Committee]] and served in that capacity until 1890 when he resigned.<ref name="StateBuilders"/>


== United States Senate ==
In 1884 he was elected to the [[49th United States Congress|Forty-ninth Congress]], was re-elected in 1886 by an enlarged majority, and declined a third nomination in 1888. In 1888 he was chairman of the New Hampshire delegation to the [[1888 Republican National Convention|Republican National Convention]] at [[Chicago]], where his political sagacity was well illustrated by the fact that he was one of the seconders of the nomination of the successful candidate, General [[Benjamin Harrison]] of [[Indiana]]. In 1890 he was again elected to the legislature, and during that session of the [[New Hampshire General Court|General Court]] was chosen [[United States Senator]], entering upon his duties March 4, 1891. He was re-elected after a unanimous nomination in the Republican caucus in 1897, and in 1903 he received the unprecedented honor of a third consecutive election for a full term, receiving every vote that was cast in the caucus.<ref name="StateBuilders"/>
[[File:Jacob Harold Gallinger, U.S. Senator from the State of New Hampshire, from State Builders.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Gallinger circa 1903]]In 1890, Gallinger was elected to the New Hampshire House again, but served only a short time before the legislature elected him to the United States Senate in 1891. He was reelected by the legislature without Republican opposition in 1897, 1903 and 1909,<ref name="StateBuilders" /> and by popular vote in 1914. He served from March 4, 1891, until his death in [[Franklin, New Hampshire]] in 1918.


As Senator, Gallinger chaired the New Hampshire delegations to the [[Republican National Convention]] of 1888, 1900, 1904 and 1908, and for a time was a member of the [[Republican National Committee]].
In the senate, he ranks with the leaders of his party. He is at the head of large and important committees and is an indefatigable worker in legislative lines. A master of parliamentary law he is frequently called upon to preside, and his voice is potent, both in speech upon the floor of the [[United States Senate|Senate]] and in private conference in the shaping of the great policies of his party and the nation.<ref name="StateBuilders"/>


Senator Gallinger is a public speaker of wide repute and his services are in constant demand in many states in every campaign. The larger portion of his political activity in this line, however, he devotes to his own state, where no advocate of party policies is more eagerly heard or more enthusiastically welcomed. In 1898 Senator Gallinger was again called to the chairmanship of the Republican state committee, and was re-elected to that position in 1900 and in 1902. In 1900 he again headed his state's delegation at the [[1900 Republican National Convention|Republican National Convention]], and in 1901 he was made the New Hampshire member of the [[Republican National Committee]].<ref name="StateBuilders"/>
In 1898, Gallinger returned to the role of chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party and was re-elected in 1900 and 1902.<ref name="StateBuilders" /> In 1901, he was also elected to represent New Hampshire on the Republican National Committee.<ref name="StateBuilders" />

As Senator he was considered a master of parliamentary law and was frequently called upon to preside over the Senate. He was also an active public speaker in and out of the Senate.<ref name="StateBuilders" />

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He was President pro tempore during the Sixty-second Congress and was also Republican Conference chairman. He also chaired the [[United States Senate Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard|Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard]], Committee on Pensions, [[U.S. Senate Committee on the District of Columbia|Committee on the District of Columbia]], and the Merchant Marine Commission.<ref>See: [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924032482600/cu31924032482600_djvu.txt ''Report of the Merchant Marine Commission, together with the testimony taken at the Hearings'', 1905, Vol. III. Hearings on the Southern Coast and at Washington, D.C. and General Index]</ref> He was named a member of the [[National Forest Reservation Commission]], established by the [[Weeks Act]], which Gallinger sponsored in the Senate.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.foresthistory.org/ASPNET/Policy/WeeksAct/Implementation.aspx |title=Protection and Restoration |access-date=November 21, 2015 |archive-date=November 17, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117043658/http://www.foresthistory.org/ASPNET/Policy/WeeksAct/Implementation.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref>

== Personal life and death ==
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Gallinger received the honorary degree of [[Master of Arts|A.M.]] from [[Dartmouth College]] in 1885 and served as trustee of [[George Washington University]] for several years. He was interred at Blossom Hill Cemetery, Concord.


==See also==
==See also==
*[[List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49)]]
*[[List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49)]]
*[[List of United States Senators born outside the United States]]
*[[List of United States senators born outside the United States]]


==Notes==
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==References==
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* ''[[American National Biography]]''
* ''[[American National Biography]]''
* ''[[Dictionary of American Biography]]''
* ''[[Dictionary of American Biography]]''
* Schlup, Leonard. "Consistent Conservative: Jacob Harold Gallinger and the Presidential Campaign of 1912 in New Hampshire." ''International Review of History and Political Science'' '''21''' (August 1984): 49-57.
* Schlup, Leonard. "Consistent Conservative: Jacob Harold Gallinger and the Presidential Campaign of 1912 in New Hampshire." ''International Review of History and Political Science'' '''21''' (August 1984): 49–57.
* U.S. Congress. Memorial Services for Jacob Harold Gallinger. 65th Cong., 3rd sess., 1918-1919. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1919.
* U.S. Congress. Memorial Services for Jacob Harold Gallinger. 65th Cong., 3rd sess., 1918–1919. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1919.
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* {{Cite Appletons'|wstitle=Gallinger, Jacob Harold|volume=7|year=1900}}
* {{Cite Appletons'|wstitle=Gallinger, Jacob Harold|volume=7|year=1900}}
* {{Cite Americana|wstitle=Gallinger, Jacob H(arold).|year=1920}}
* {{Cite Americana|wstitle=Gallinger, Jacob H(arold).|year=1920}}
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* [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hn35bw;view=1up;seq=9 Jacob H. Gallinger, late a representative from New Hampshire, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1919]
* [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hn35bw;view=1up;seq=9 Jacob H. Gallinger, late a representative from New Hampshire, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1919]

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Jacob H. Gallinger
Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference
In office
March 4, 1913 – August 17, 1918
DeputyJames Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. (1915)
Preceded byShelby Moore Cullom
Succeeded byHenry Cabot Lodge
President pro tempore of the United States Senate
In office
February 12, 1912 – March 3, 1913
Preceded byAugustus O. Bacon
Succeeded byJames Paul Clarke
United States Senator
from New Hampshire
In office
March 4, 1891 – August 17, 1918
Preceded byHenry W. Blair
Succeeded byIrving W. Drew
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New Hampshire's 2nd district
In office
March 4, 1885 – March 3, 1889
Preceded byOssian Ray
Succeeded byOrren C. Moore
Member of the New Hampshire Senate
In office
1878–1880
Member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives
In office
1872–1873
Personal details
Born(1837-03-28)March 28, 1837
Cornwall, Ontario, British Canada
DiedAugust 17, 1918(1918-08-17) (aged 81)
Franklin, New Hampshire, U.S.
Political partyRepublican

Jacob Harold Gallinger (March 28, 1837 – August 17, 1918), was a United States senator from New Hampshire who served as President pro tempore of the Senate in 1912 and 1913.

Early life and career

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Jacob Harold Gallinger was born in Cornwall, Ontario, British Canada on March 28, 1837. His father's family were German and his mother's was German American.[1]

He was home-schooled from an early age.[1]

Gallinger moved to the U.S. at an early age and first worked as a printer.[1]

Medical career

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Gallinger studied medicine at the Cincinnati Eclectic Medical Institute and graduated at the head of his class in May 1858.[1] He studied abroad for three years, writing and working as a printer to cover his expenses.[1] In 1861, he returned to the United States and engaged in the practice of homeopathic medicine and surgery in Keene, New Hampshire before moving to Concord, New Hampshire in April 1862.[1] He practiced medicine actively until 1885.[1]

He was an active member of the American Institute of Homeopathy from 1868 to 1880, and throughout his political career, he was a forthright advocate of the homeopathic school of thought and practice. Besides the AIH, he was a member of many state and national medical societies and a frequent contributor to the journals of his profession. He was on the board of trustees of Columbia Hospital for Women, and a member of the board of visitors to Providence Hospital.

Early political career

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State legislature

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Gallinger was elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1872 and re-elected in 1873.[1] He served as a member of the state constitutional convention in 1876. He was then elected to the New Hampshire Senate and served from 1878 to 1880. In 1879, he was elected Senate President.[1]

He became surgeon general of New Hampshire under Governor Natt Head, with the rank of brigadier general, from 1879 to 1880. In 1882, he was elected chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party and remained in that role until his resignation in 1890.[1]

United States House of Representatives

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In 1884, Gallinger was elected to the United States House of Representatives, serving from March 4, 1885, to March 3, 1889, but declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1888.

In 1888, Gallinger served as chairman of the New Hampshire delegation to the Republican National Convention at Chicago, where he seconded the nomination of Benjamin Harrison of Indiana for president.

United States Senate

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Gallinger circa 1903

In 1890, Gallinger was elected to the New Hampshire House again, but served only a short time before the legislature elected him to the United States Senate in 1891. He was reelected by the legislature without Republican opposition in 1897, 1903 and 1909,[1] and by popular vote in 1914. He served from March 4, 1891, until his death in Franklin, New Hampshire in 1918.

As Senator, Gallinger chaired the New Hampshire delegations to the Republican National Convention of 1888, 1900, 1904 and 1908, and for a time was a member of the Republican National Committee.

In 1898, Gallinger returned to the role of chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party and was re-elected in 1900 and 1902.[1] In 1901, he was also elected to represent New Hampshire on the Republican National Committee.[1]

As Senator he was considered a master of parliamentary law and was frequently called upon to preside over the Senate. He was also an active public speaker in and out of the Senate.[1]

He was President pro tempore during the Sixty-second Congress and was also Republican Conference chairman. He also chaired the Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard, Committee on Pensions, Committee on the District of Columbia, and the Merchant Marine Commission.[2] He was named a member of the National Forest Reservation Commission, established by the Weeks Act, which Gallinger sponsored in the Senate.[3]

Personal life and death

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Gallinger received the honorary degree of A.M. from Dartmouth College in 1885 and served as trustee of George Washington University for several years. He was interred at Blossom Hill Cemetery, Concord.

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Willey, George Franklyn (1903). State Builders; An Illustrated Historical and Biographical Record of the State of New Hampshire at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century. Manchester NH: New Hampshire Pub. Corp. p. 205. OCLC 7566342.
  2. ^ See: Report of the Merchant Marine Commission, together with the testimony taken at the Hearings, 1905, Vol. III. Hearings on the Southern Coast and at Washington, D.C. and General Index
  3. ^ "Protection and Restoration". Archived from the original on November 17, 2015. Retrieved November 21, 2015.

References

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Party political offices
First Republican nominee for U.S. Senator from New Hampshire
(Class 3)
1914 		Succeeded by
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by U.S. Congressman from New Hampshire
1885–1889 		Succeeded by
U.S. Senate
Preceded by United States Senator from New Hampshire
1891–1918 		Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by President pro tempore of the United States Senate
Rotating pro tems 		Succeeded by
Preceded by President of the New Hampshire Senate
1879–1881 		Succeeded by
Honorary titles
Preceded by Dean of the United States Senate
March 4, 1913 – August 17, 1918 		Succeeded by
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