Senator William B. Allison

ALLISON, HARLAN

Posted By: Sharyl Ferrall (email)
Date: 12/12/2005 at 05:09:05

William B. Allison, of Dubuque, was born at Perry, Ohio, March 2, 1829; was educated at the Western Reserve College, Ohio; studied law and practiced in Ohio until he removed to Iowa in 1857; served on the staff of the Governor of Iowa, and aided in organizing volunteers in the beginning of the was for the suppression of the rebellion; was elected a Representative in the Thirty-eight, Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and Forty-first Congresses; and was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican, to succeed James Harlan, Republican; took his seat March 4, 1873, and was re-elected in 1878 and in 1884. His term of service will expire March 3, 1891.

-source: Official Congressional Directory, Fifty-First congress, First Session, Third Ed., Corrected to May 10, 1890; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1890; Iowa Senators; pg. 39