1. Gove Saulsbury was an American physician and politician from Dover, in Kent County, Delaware.
15 Facts About Gove Saulsbury
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Gove Saulsbury was a member of the Democratic Party, and he served in the Delaware General Assembly and as Governor of Delaware.
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Gove Saulsbury led opposition to civil rights for African Americans in Delaware.
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Gove Saulsbury's father was a descendant of the Salusbury Family of Wales, but changed the spelling of the name after the American Revolution due to his family's loyalist sympathies.
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Gove Saulsbury was the older brother of US Senators Willard Saulsbury, Sr.
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Gove Saulsbury attended Delaware College in Newark and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1842.
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Gove Saulsbury married Rosina Jane Smith and had five children: Margaret, Olivia Smith, Rosa, Gove, and William.
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Gove Saulsbury was a medical doctor and lived at the northwest corner of the Green in Dover.
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Gove Saulsbury was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1876.
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When Gove Saulsbury's term was over, he wanted to assume the US Senate seat held by his brother, Willard Gove Saulsbury.
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Gove Saulsbury died at Dover and is buried at Wesley Methodist Church Cemetery.
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Gove Saulsbury was President of the Delaware Medical Society in 1861, and in 1873 was one of the founders of Wesley College in Dover.
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Gove Saulsbury was a strong and effective leader for a bitterly reactionary majority in Delaware, and his policies set the tone and the agenda for much political activity for a generation.
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Gove Saulsbury had a strong will and asserted his opinions earnestly and often, and as it seemed to those who differed with him, obstinately.
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Gove Saulsbury was the slyest, cunningest man, and the most natural born politician Delaware ever produced.