James M. Harvey

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name= James M. Harvey


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order=5^th
office= Governor of Kansas
term_start= January 11, 1869
term_end= January 13, 1873
lieutenant= Charles Vernon Eskridge, Peter Percival Elder
predecessor= Nehemiah Green
successor= Thomas A. Osborn
birth_date= birth date|1833|9|21|mf=y
birth_place= Monroe County, Virginia
death_date= death date and age|1894|4|15|1833|9|21|mf=y
death_place= Riley County, Kansas
spouse= Charlotte Richardson Cutter
profession= civil engineer, soldier, surveyor, farmer
party= Republican
religion=
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jr/sr and state=U.S. Senator, Kansas
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term=February 1874–March 1877
preceded=Alexander Caldwell
succeeded=Preston B. Plumb
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James Madison Harvey (September 21, 1833 – April 15, 1894) was a United States Senator from Kansas and fifth Governor of Kansas.

Born near Salt Sulphur Springs, Virginia (now West Virginia), Harvey attended common schools in Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa. He became a civil engineer and headed west as a prospector to Pike's Peak in 1859 as a Fifty-Niner. After meeting several discouraged miners along the way, Harvey decided to settle instead in Kansas Territory, so he acquired a plot of land in Riley County near Fort Riley and engaged in agricultural pursuits. From 1861 to 1864, he served with the Union Army during the Civil War, advancing to the rank of Captain in the 4th Kansas Volunteer Infantry and 10th Kansas Volunteer Infantry.

Harvey was elected to the Kansas House of Representatives, 1865-1866, and then elected to the Kansas Senate in 1867-1868. He was Governor of Kansas for two terms, serving from 1868 to 1872, and then elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Alexander Caldwell, where he served from February 2, 1874, to March 3, 1877.

After his Senate term, Harvey worked as a government surveyor in New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, and Oklahoma, before returning to Kansas in 1890 to resume agricultural pursuits. He died near Junction City, Kansas in 1894. Interment was in Highland Cemetery, Junction City.

External links

*CongBio|H000307 Retrieved on 2008-02-14
* [http://www.kshs.org/research/collections/documents/personalpapers/findingaids/harvey.htm Governor's papers]
* [http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1912/h/harvey_james_madison.html James Madison Harvey biography] from "Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc.", 1912
* [http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1918ks/bioh/harveyjm.html James Madison Harvey biography] from "A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans", 1918
*findagrave|6634686 Retrieved on 2008-02-14