Shelby Moore Cullom

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name= Shelby Moore Cullom


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order= 17th
office= Governor of Illinois
term_start= 1877
term_end= 1883
lieutenant=
predecessor= John L. Beveridge
successor= John M. Hamilton
birth_date= November 22, 1829
birth_place=Monticello, Kentucky
death_date=January 28, 1914
death_place=Washington, D.C.
party= Republican
profession=


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Shelby Moore Cullom (November 22, 1829 - January 28, 1914) was a U.S. political figure, serving in various offices, including the United States House of Representatives, the United States Senate and governor of Illinois.

Cullom was born in 1829 in Monticello, Kentucky, and moved to Springfield, Illinois, in 1853. There he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1855. He practiced law in the city and was elected city attorney in 1855.

Cullom was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives in 1856 and 1860-1861, serving as speaker of the house in 1861.

He was elected as a Republican 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 of Representatives 1873-1874, and served as speaker in 1873.

In 1876, he was elected governor of Illinois and served in that office from 1877-1883, when he resigned to take office as a US senator. Cullom was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1882, and reelected in 1888, 1894, 1900 and 1906, serving from March 4, 1883, to March 3, 1913

As a U.S. senator, Cullom oversaw the passage of the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. He believed that only the federal government had the power to force railroads to provide fair treatment to all of its customers, large and small. This was because corporations, such as Standard Oil, had corrupted many of the railroad's officials into providing them with rebates, and as whole, the companies in question were more powerful than any state government.

He died in 1914 in Washington, D.C. and is buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield. [ [http://www.findagrave.com/php/famous.php?page=cem&FScemeteryid=107259 Find A Grave - Oak Ridge Cemetery ] at www.findagrave.com]

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Further reading

*citation
last=Cullom
first=Shelby Moore
author-link=Shelby Moore Cullom
year=1911
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editor-first=
editor-link=
contribution=
title=Fifty Years of Public Service: Personal Recollections of Shelby M. Cullom
volume=
edition=
publisher=A. C. McClurg & Co
publication-date=1911
publication-place=Chicago
pages=
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=YzQDAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage
access-date=2008-08-23

External links

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