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Joseph E. McDonald
Politician
Male
Born
Aug 29, 1819
Hometown
Butler County, Ohio
Died
Jun 21, 1891
Death Place
Indianapolis
Alma Mater
Collegii Wabashen...
Joseph Ewing McDonald was a United States Representative and Senator from Indiana. Born in Butler County, Ohio, he moved with his mother to Montgomery County, Indiana in 1826 and apprenticed to the saddler’s trade when twelve years of age in Lafayette… Read More
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CHILDHOOD
1819
Birth
Born in 1819.
1826
7 Years Old
Born in Butler County, Ohio, he moved with his mother to Montgomery County, Indiana in 1826 and apprenticed to the saddler’s trade when twelve years of age in Lafayette, Indiana.
TWENTIES
1840
21 Years Old
He attended Wabash College, (Crawfordsville) and graduated from Asbury University (Greencastle, Indiana; now DePauw University) in 1840.
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1843
24 Years Old
He was prosecuting attorney from 1843 to 1847 and in the latter year moved to Crawfordsville where he practiced law until 1859.
THIRTIES
1849
30 Years Old
McDonald was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first Congress, serving from March 4, 1849 to March 3, 1851.
1850
31 Years Old
He was not a candidate for renomination in 1850, and was elected attorney general of Indiana in 1856 and was reelected in 1858.
FORTIES
1859
40 Years Old
He moved to Indianapolis in 1859, was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Indiana in 1864, and was elected to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1875, to March 3, 1881. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection. While in the Senate he was chairman of the Committee on Public Lands (Forty-sixth Congress). McDonald died in Indianapolis in 1891; interment was in Crown Hill Cemetery.
LATE ADULTHOOD
1891
73 Years Old
Died on June 21, 1891.
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