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Richard James Oglesby (July 25, 1824 – April 24, 1899) was an American soldier and Republican politician from Illinois, who served three non-consecutive terms as Governor of Illinois (from 1865 to 1869, for ten days in 1873, and from 1885 to 1889) and as a United States Senator from Illinois (from 1873 to 1879), and earlier was a ...
21 de jul. de 2024 · Richard James Oglesby (born July 25, 1824, Floydsburg, Oldham county, Kentucky, U.S.—died April 24, 1899, Elkhart, Illinois) was the governor of Illinois (1865–69, 1873, 1885–89) and a U.S. senator (1873–79).
Richard James Oglesby was a statesman and three-time governor of Illinois who also served as a Union General during the Civil War. He is best known for his successful branding of candidate Abraham Lincoln as the “rail-splitter” in the pivotal presidential campaign of 1860.
Richard James Oglesby (25 de julio de 1824 -24 de abril de 1899) fue un soldado estadounidense y político republicano de Illinois, que sirvió tres mandatos no consecutivos como gobernador de Illinois (de 1865 a 1869)., durante diez días en 1873, y de 1885 a 1889) y como senador de los Estados Unidos por Illinois (de 1873 a 1879), y ...
6 de jul. de 2020 · "Richard James Oglesby is best known for introducing the rail-splitter image into Abraham Lincoln's successful presidential campaign of 1860, and in many ways his career ran parallel to Honest Abe's. This biography of the three-time governor of Illinois offers the first detailed view of a key figure in the great changes that swept ...
1 de dic. de 2002 · Mark A. Plummer's biography of Richard J. Oglesby, an Illinois politician whose career spanned the nineteenth century, is a case in point. The historical colossus of Abraham Lincoln casts such a giant shadow in Illinois that the temptation to judge Oglesby's significance by the degree of his interactions with Lincoln is difficult to ...
Richard J. Oglesby, Governor 1865-8, and re-elected in 1872 and 1884, was born July 25, 1824, in Oldham Co., Ky.,—the State which might be considered the "mother of Illinois Governors." Bereft of his parents at the tender age of eight years, his early education was neglected.
