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Up for sale the "Governor of Vermont" William P. Dillingham Hand Signed 2.5X4.5 Card.
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William Paul Dillingham (December 12,
1843 – July 12, 1923) was an American attorney and politician from the
state of Vermont. A Republican and
the son of Congressman and Governor Paul Dillingham, William P. Dillingham served as governor from
1888 to 1890 and United States Senator from
1900 until his death. Dillingham was born in Waterbury, Vermont in
1843, and attended schools in Vermont and New Hampshire. He studied law with his brother in law, Matthew Hale Carpenter,
attained admission to the bar, and practiced in Waterbury and Montpelier. Groomed for a
political career from an early age, Dillingham served as Secretary of Civil and
Military Affairs (chief assistant to the governor) during his father's term and
that of Asahel Peck, State's Attorney of Washington County, and
member of the Vermont House of
Representatives and Vermont State Senate. He
was elected governor in 1888 and served one two-year term. In 1900, Dillingham
won election to the United States Senate, replacing Jonathan Ross, who had
been appointed as a temporary replacement following the death of
incumbent Justin Smith Morrill.
Dillingham served in the Senate until his death, and was chairman of several
committees during his tenure. As head of a commission that studied immigration,
he argued that southern and eastern European immigrants posed a threat to the
country's stability and growth, and that immigration from those areas should be
curbed in the future. Dillingham died in Montpelier in 1923 and was buried at
Hope Cemetery in Waterbury.
