DAWES, HENRY LAURENS (1816-1903)

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DAWES, HENRY LAURENS (1816-1903) , American lawyer, was born at Cummington,

Massachusetts

MASSACHUSETTS (an Indian name, originally applied to a tribe of Indians)

, on the 3oth of October 1816. After graduating at Yale in 1839, he taught for a time at Greenfield, Mass., and also edited The Greenfield

Gazette

GAZETTE

. In 1842 he was admitted to the bar and began the practice of law at North Adams, where for a time he conducted The Transcript. He served in the

Massachusetts

MASSACHUSETTS (an Indian name, originally applied to a tribe of Indians)

House

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

of Representatives in 18481849 and in 1852, in the state Senate in 185o, and in the Massachusetts constitutional convention in 1853. From 1853 to 1857 he was United States

district

DISTRICT

attorney for the western

district

DISTRICT

of Massachusetts; and from 18571875 he was a Republican member of the national

House

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

of Representatives. In 1875 he succeeded Charles Sumner as senator from Massachusetts, serving until 1893. During this long period of legislative activity he served in the House on the committees on elections, ways and means, and appropriations, took a prominent part in the

anti

ANTI, or CAMPA

-slavery and reconstruction

measures

MEASURES

during and after the Civil War, in tariff legislation, and in the

establishment

ESTABLISHMENT (0. Fr. establissement, Fr. etablissement,
late
- LATE
Norm. Fr. establishement, from O. Fr. establir, Fr. etablir, Lat. stabilire, to make stable)

of a fish commission and the inauguration of daily weather reports. In the Senate he was chairman of the committee on Indian affairs, and gave much attention to the enactment of

laws

LAWS

for the benefit of the Indians. On leaving the Senate, in 1893, he became chairman of the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes (sometimes called the Dawes Indian Commission),and served in this capacity for ten years, negotiating with the tribes for the extinction of the communal title to their land and for the dissolution of the tribal governments, with the object of making the tribes a constituent part of the United States.' Dawes died at Pittsfield, Mass., on the 5th of February 1903.

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