Joseph Homan Manley
Joseph Homan Manley (October 13, 1842
Biography
Born in Bangor, Maine, Manley first attended school in Farmington, Maine, and subsequently studied law in Boston and graduated from Albany Law School in 1863.
In 1866 he was president of the Augusta, Maine City Council, where he first became associated with Blaine. From 1869 to 1876, he was an agent of the Internal Revenue Service, posted in various cities around the northeast, and in 1876-78 was an agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad in its tax dealings with the Federal government.
Manley then returned to Maine and, purchasing a half-interest in the newspaper The Maine Farmer (formally edited by his father), made it into a major voice for Blaine-style Republicanism. Blaine subsequently secured Manley's appointment as Augusta's U.S. postmaster (an important federal post under the then-existing spoils system). The large Richardsonian Romanesque U.S. Post Office Building in Augusta is one of his legacies.
Manley subsequently became Blaine's right-hand man on the Maine Republican State Committee, on which he served 1881–1900, and which he chaired for 15 of those years.[2]
Manley was the Maine delegate on
Manley also held a variety of state offices, serving in the
Manley's New York Times obituary describes him as "a national politician who was identified with vast corporate interests".[2]
Manley married the daughter of former Maine governor Samuel Cony and was a driving force behind the building of Cony High School in Augusta.[4]
Notes
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- ^ a b c New York Times, Feb. 8, 1905, p. 9 Obituary ; Representative Men of Maine (Portland, 1893)
- ^ New York Times, Jan. 12, 1894, p. 8, "Manley Succeeds Carter: A New Chairman of the National Republican Executive Committee"; June 20, 1896 "Mark Hanna Chair of New Republican National Committee"; Nov. 21, 1900. p. 3 "Manley Resigns after 16 Years as Chair of Executive Committee of Maine Republican Party;
- ^ Biographical Encyclopedia of Maine of the 19th Century (Boston: 1885), p. 338