JOSEPH LAFAYETTE RAWLINS
Joseph Lafayette Rawlins, of Salt Lake City, was born in Salt Lake County, Utah, March 28, 1850; lived on a farm until eighteen years of age; completed a classical course in the University of Indiana, but, having gone to Utah, did not return for graduation; was professor in the University of Deseret, in Salt Lake City, Utah, for two years, until 1875; was admitted to the bar in that year and followed the profession of the law until his election as delegate in 1892; in politics has always been a Democrat; was elected to the Fifty-Third Congress as delegate on the Democratic ticket, and was defeated for the Fifty-Fourth Congress by Hon. Frank J. Cannon, and was elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat in 1897; took his seat March 4, 1897. His term of service will expire March 3, 1903.
