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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 ...
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).
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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, Illinois’ 14th, 16th, and 20th governor was born in Floydsburg, Kentucky, on July 25, 1824. After being orphaned at an early age, Oglesby moved with his uncle to Decatur, Illinois. His early education was limited and attained in the common schools of Illinois.
Richard James Oglesby was an American soldier and Republican politician from Illinois, who served three non-consecutive terms as Governor of Illinois and as a United States Senator from Illinois, and earlier was a member of the Illinois Senate, elected in 1860.
RICHARD J. OGLESBY. This distinguished soldier and statesman was born on the twenty-fifth of July, St. James' day, 1824, in Oldham County, Kentucky. His parents, Isabella Watson and Jacob Oglesby, both of Scottish descent, came to Kentucky from Virginia.
Dec 1, 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 ...
