- Joseph M. Carey
Infobox Governor
name = Joseph Maull Carey
order = 8th
office = Governor of Wyoming
term_start = 1911
term_end = 1915
lieutenant =
predecessor =Fenimore Chatterton
successor =John B. Kendrick
birth_date =January 19 ,1845
birth_place =Milton, Delaware
death_date =February 5 ,1924
death_place =Cheyenne, Wyoming
party = Republican
spouse =
profession =
religion =Joseph Maull Carey (
January 19 1845 ndashFebruary 5 1924 ) was alawyer ,rancher ,judge , andpolitician , who spent most of his political career inWyoming before and after it achieved statehood.Carey was born
January 19 1845 in Milton,Delaware and was educated inFort Edward Collegiate Institute andUnion College before graduating from the law department at theUniversity of Pennsylvania atPhiladelphia in 1864. He was admitted to the bar three years later, in 1867.Shortly afterwards, he struck west and became the first United States Attorney for the Territory of Wyoming from its organization and served in that capacity from 1869 to 1871. He subsequently became an
associate justice in the Supreme Court of the Territory of Wyoming. He served the court from 1871 to 1876 before retiring from the bench to become a rancher.Afterwards, he began to enter politics, first as a member of the
Centennial Commission from 1872 to 1876, and then as a member of theRepublican National Committee from 1876 to 1879. He was subsequently elected asmayor ofCheyenne, Wyoming (from 1881 to 1885) and then was elected to theUnited States House of Representatives representing the Territory of Wyoming from 1885 to 1890. When the territory became a state, he was elected to theUnited States Senate from 1890 to 1895. In 1895 however, he failed in a run for re-election and returned to the practice of law. He did not reenter politics until 1911 when he made a successful campaign to beGovernor of Wyoming .In 1912, he abandoned his Republican party and was one of the organizers of the
Progressive Party which sought to re-electTheodore Roosevelt . He also served as the vice president of theFederal Land Bank and a member of theboard of trustees of theUniversity of Wyoming at Laramie.He died in
Cheyenne, Wyoming , aged 79.ources
* "American National Biography"; "Dictionary of American Biography"; Peters, Betsy R. "Joseph M. Carey and The Progressive Movement in Wyoming". (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wyoming at Laramie, 1971).
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