William Dorsheimer was an American lawyer, journalist, newspaper publisher, and politician.
12 Facts About William Dorsheimer
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William Dorsheimer was the son of Sarah Gorgas and Philip Dorsheimer, a New York State Treasurer.
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William Dorsheimer was educated in common schools, then at Phillips Academy, and then studied at Harvard College from 1849 to 1851.
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William Dorsheimer left Harvard without graduating because of a protracted illness.
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William Dorsheimer was a delegate to the 1872 Liberal-Republican National Convention at Cincinnati, Ohio, and afterwards became a Democrat.
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William Dorsheimer was the Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1875 to 1879.
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William Dorsheimer was elected as a Democrat to the 48th United States Congress and served from March 4,1883, to March 3,1885.
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William Dorsheimer resigned from that office later in March 1886.
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William Dorsheimer was one of the founders of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy and the Buffalo Historical Society.
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William Dorsheimer died in Savannah, Georgia, while on a train trip to Florida with his wife.
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William Dorsheimer is chiefly responsible for bringing landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted to Buffalo to design its park system.
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The William Dorsheimer House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.