Stephen Wallace Dorsey was a Senator from Arkansas

Arkansas

Arkansas is a state located in the southern region of the United States. Its name is an Algonquian name of the Quapaw Indians. Arkansas shares borders with six states , and its eastern border is largely defined by the Mississippi River...

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He was born in Benson

Benson, Vermont

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, Rutland County, Vermont, February 28, 1842 and moved to Ohio

Ohio

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 and settled in Oberlin

Oberlin, Ohio

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. He attended the public schools.
During the Civil War

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 served in the Union Army

Union Army

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. After the war he returned to Ohio and settled in Sandusky

Sandusky, Ohio

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 where he was employed by the Sandusky Tool Co. and subsequently became its president. He was elected president of the Arkansas Railway Co. and moved to Arkansas

Arkansas

Arkansas is a state located in the southern region of the United States. Its name is an Algonquian name of the Quapaw Indians. Arkansas shares borders with six states , and its eastern border is largely defined by the Mississippi River...

 and settled in Helena

Helena, Arkansas

Helena is the eastern portion of Helena-West Helena, Arkansas, a city in Phillips County, Arkansas. As of the 2000 census, this portion of the city population was 6,323. Helena was the county seat of Phillips County until January 1, 2006, when it merged its government and city limits with...

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He was elected as a Republican

Republican Party (United States)

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 to the United States Senate

United States Senate

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 and served from March 4, 1873, to March 3, 1879. He did not run for reelection. He was a chairman of the Committee on District of Columbia

United States Senate Committee on the District of Columbia

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 (Forty-fifth Congress). He was a member of the Republican National Committee

Republican National Committee

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 in 1880.

After Dorsey, no other Republican served as senior Senator from Arkansas until Tim Hutchinson

Tim Hutchinson

Young Timothy Hutchinson, known as Tim Hutchinson is a Republican politician and former senator from the state of Arkansas.Hutchinson was born in Bentonville, Arkansas, and he graduated from Bob Jones University...

 in 1999, upon Dale Bumpers

Dale Bumpers

Dale Leon Bumpers is an American politician who served as the 38th Governor of Arkansas from 1971 to 1975; and then in the United States Senate from 1975 until his retirement in January 1999. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Senator Bumpers is currently counsel at the Washington, D.C...

' retirement. No other Republican served in the class 3 Senate seat from Arkansas that Dorsey held until John Boozman

John Boozman

John Nichols Boozman is the junior U.S. Senator for Arkansas . A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the U.S. Representative for .Born in Shreveport, Louisiana, he was the brother of state Senator Fay Boozman...

 in 2011.

He engaged in cattle

Cattle

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 raising and mining in New Mexico

New Mexico

New Mexico is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth-most sparsely inhabited U.S...

 and Colorado

Colorado

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 and subsequently moved to Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

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, where he resided until his death on March 20, 1916. He was interred in Fairmount Cemetery

Fairmount Cemetery (Denver, Colorado)

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 in Denver, Colorado.
Clayton

Clayton, New Mexico

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, the seat of Union County

Union County, New Mexico

-2010:Whereas according to the 2010 U.S. Census Bureau:*81.7% White*1.8% Black*2.0% Native American*0.5% Asian*0.0% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander*2.3% Two or more races*11.7% Other races*39.7% Hispanic or Latino -2000:...

, New Mexico

New Mexico

New Mexico is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth-most sparsely inhabited U.S...

is named for a son of Senator Dorsey.