Chauncey Forward Black
Chauncey Forward Black | |
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Charles W. Stone | |
| Succeeded by | William T. Davies |
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| Born | Chauncey Forward Black November 24, 1839 Jeremiah Sullivan Black Mary Forward Black |
Chauncey Forward Black (November 24, 1839 – December 2, 1904) was the third
Governor of Pennsylvania
in 1886.
Biography
Born in Glades, Pennsylvania on November 24, 1839, he was the son of justice for the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Secretary of State Jeremiah S. Black and Mary (Forward) Black, and the grandson of Representative Henry Black and Mary (Sullivan) Black. His maternal grandfather was Representative Chauncey Forward. He married Mary Clarke Dawson and they had four children.
Black was educated at
The New York Sun. Black was also an author best known for ghostwriting a biography of Abraham Lincoln for his bodyguard Ward Hill Lamon titled The Life of Abraham Lincoln; from his Birth to his Inauguration as President published in 1872.[1] Because of his reformist zeal, Black was chosen to run on the ticket of Robert E. Pattison in 1882. He served as Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania from 1883 to 1887 and ran unsuccessfully for governor in 1886.[2]
Chauncey Forward Black died in York, Pennsylvania, on December 2, 1904, at the age of 65. He was buried in Prospect Hill Cemetery, York, Pennsylvania.
References
- ^ John Hoffmann | Review Essay | Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 28.2 | The History Cooperative Archived May 5, 2008, at the Wayback Machine at www.historycooperative.org
- ^ "Hon. Chauncey F. Black, Sketch of the Nominee for Lieutenant Governor". Pittsburgh Dispatch. 1890-07-03. p. 7. Retrieved 2022-10-25.
External links
- The Political Graveyard
- Ward Hill Lamon, Chauncey F. Black (1872). The Life of Abraham Lincoln. James R. Osgood and Company.
- "CHAUNCEY F. BLACK DEAD.; Ex-Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania and a Well-Known Democrat". The New York Times. December 3, 1904. Retrieved 2008-08-06.
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