Shelby M. Cullom
Shelby M. Cullom | |
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Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives | |
In office 1873–1875 | |
Preceded by | William M. Smith |
Succeeded by | Elijah Haines |
In office 1861–1863 | |
Preceded by | William Ralls Morrison |
Succeeded by | Samuel A. Buckmaster |
Member of the Illinois House of Representatives | |
In office 1873–1875 | |
In office 1860–1863 | |
In office 1856–1857 | |
Personal details | |
Born | November 22, 1829 Monticello, Kentucky, U.S. |
Died | January 28, 1914 Washington, D.C., U.S. | (aged 84)
Resting place | Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois, U.S. |
Political party | Republican |
Spouses | Hannah Fisher
(m. 1855; died 1861)Julia Fisher
(m. 1863; died 1909) |
Children | 3 |
Profession | Attorney |
Signature | |
Shelby Moore Cullom (November 22, 1829 – January 28, 1914) was a U.S.
Life and career
Cullom was born in 1829 in
Cullom was elected to the
In 1855, he married Hannah Fisher.[2] She died in 1861, and in 1863 he married her sister Julia.[3] They were married until her death in 1909.[2] With first wife, Cullom was the father of an infant who died at birth in 1861 and was not named, as well as daughters Ella Cullom Ridgely (1856–1902) and Catherine Cullom Hardie (1859–1894).
He was elected in 1864 to the Thirty-ninth, and reelected to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses (March 4, 1865 – March 3, 1871). Cullom returned to the Illinois House from 1873 to 1874, serving again as Speaker.[1] In 1876, he was elected Governor of Illinois, defeating Lewis Steward by 6,834 votes. He was re-elected in 1880, becoming the first Illinois governor to be re-elected after a four-year term.[4] Under Cullom's governorship, the Southern Illinois Penitentiary was commissioned, the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was quelled, the Illinois Appellate Court was founded, and the Illinois State Board of Health was established.[5] He resigned in 1883 to take office as a US senator; Lieutenant Governor John Marshall Hamilton assumed the governorship in his place. Cullom was elected to the United States Senate in 1882, and reelected in 1888, 1894, 1900 and 1906, serving from March 4, 1883, to March 3, 1913.[6]
As a Senator, Cullom oversaw the passage of the
Cullom had an interest in the territories of the United States of the time. Together with Congressman Isaac S. Struble, Cullom pushed the Cullom-Struble Bill, whose sanctions against polygamy included exclusion of the Utah Territory from statehood. The bill was on the verge of passing Congress in 1890, but the legislation was preempted when the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) formally disavowed polygamous marriages with the 1890 Manifesto. Cullom was appointed by President William McKinley in July 1898 to the commission created by the Newlands Resolution to establish government in the Territory of Hawaii.
He died in 1914 in
Notes
- ^ a b c Davidson & Stuvé 1884, p. 968.
- ^ a b Rhoads, Mark (November 19, 2006). "Shelby Moore Cullom". Illinois Hall of Fame. Illinois Review.
- ^ Hinman, Ida (1895). The Washington Sketch Book.
- ^ Davidson & Stuvé 1884, p. 969.
- ^ Davidson & Stuvé 1884, p. 972–979.
- ^ "S. Doc. 58-1 - Fifty-eighth Congress. (Extraordinary session -- beginning November 9, 1903.) Official Congressional Directory for the use of the United States Congress. Compiled under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing by A.J. Halford. Special edition. Corrections made to November 5, 1903". GovInfo.gov. U.S. Government Printing Office. 9 November 1903. p. 19. Retrieved 2 July 2023.
- ^ Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. Govt. Print. Off. pp. 97.
- Davidson, Alexander; Stuvé, Bernard (1884). A Complete History of Illinois from 1673 to 1884. Springfield, IL: H. W. Rokker.
Further reading
- Cullom, Shelby Moore (1911), Fifty Years of Public Service: Personal Recollections of Shelby M. Cullom, Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co, retrieved 2008-08-23