Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver was a Republican orator, US Representative, then US Senator from Iowa at the turn of the 20th century.
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Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver was a Republican orator, US Representative, then US Senator from Iowa at the turn of the 20th century.
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Jonathan Dolliver attended the public schools and graduated from the West Virginia University at Morgantown in 1876.
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Jonathan Dolliver served as city solicitor of Fort Dodge from 1880 to 1887.
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In 1884, as a twenty-six-year-old, Dolliver received national attention for his skills as an orator, when campaigning around the nation on behalf of the Republican presidential candidate James G Blaine.
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In 1888, Dolliver challenged the incumbent congressman for Iowa's 10th congressional district, Adoniram J Holmes, for the Republican nomination.
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Jonathan Dolliver easily won the general election and began to represent in north-central Iowa in the United States House of Representatives in 1889.
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Jonathan Dolliver served as chairman of the House Committee on Expenditures in the Fifty-sixth Congress.
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Jonathan Dolliver was considered by some as a favorite to win the spot at the 1900 Republican National Convention.
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Jonathan Dolliver was twice re-elected to the Senate by the Iowa General Assembly.
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Jonathan Dolliver soon reconciled with Cummins, and became increasingly aligned with Cummins in his party's progressive wing.
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Small town of Jonathan Dolliver, Iowa, established on a new railroad line in 1899, and Jonathan Dolliver Memorial State Park south of Fort Dodge, were named in honor of him.
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