WILLIAM NATHANIEL ROACH
William Nathaniel Roach, of Larimore, was born in Washington, D. C., September 25, 1840; was educated in the city schools and Georgetown College; was a clerk in the quartermaster’s department during the war; removed to Dakota Territory in 1879; was interested in mail contracts for several years; took up land in Dakota and developed a farm, and has been engaged in agriculture since; was mayor of Larimore from 1883 to 1887; was a member of the Territorial legislature of the session of 1885; was Democratic candidate for governor at the first State election and was defeated by John Miller; was renominated at the next election and was again defeated; was elected United States Senator February 20, 1893, after thirty-three days’ balloting, upon the sixty-first ballot, receiving twenty-three Democratic, seventeen Populist, and ten Republican votes, against forty-two Republican votes cast for H. F. Miller, Republican; took his seat March 4, 1893. His term of service will expire March 3, 1899.
