JOSEPH BENSON FORAKER
Joseph Benson Foraker, of Cincinnati, was born July 5, 1846, on a farm near Rainsboro, Highland County, Ohio; enlisted July 14, 1862, as a private in Company A, Eighty-Ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which organization he served until the close of the war, at which time he held the rank of first lieutenant and brevet captain; was graduated from Cornell University, Ithaca. N. Y., July 1, 1869; was admitted to the bar and entered upon the practice of the law at Cincinnati, Ohio, October 14, 1869; was elected judge of the superior court of Cincinnati in April, 1879; resigned on account of ill health May 1, 1882; was the Republican candidate for governor of Ohio in 1883, but was defeated; was elected to that office in 1885, and reëlected in 1887; was again nominated for governor and defeated in 1889; was elected United States Senator January 15, 1896, to succeed Calvin S. Brice, and took his seat March 4, 1897. His term will expire March 3, 1903.
