DATE OF BIRTH: Feb. 15, 1832 |
PLACE OF BIRTH: Durham |
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DATE OF DEATH: Jan. 13, 1899 |
PLACE OF DEATH: Washington, DC |
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PROFESSION: School Teacher, Lawyer, Newspaper Publisher |
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POLITICAL AFFILIATION: Republican |
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TERM IN OFFICE: January 7, 1874 – January 6, 1876 |
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FIRST LADY: Salome McKenney |
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QUOTE: In the judgement of many of our best educators, the time has arrived for this State to enact a law making attendance upon some school a certain portion of the year obligatory upon children between the ages of eight and fourteen years.
Inaugural Address, January 8, 1874 |
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OTHER ELECTED OR APPOINTED OFFICES: State Representative (Speaker of the House), Congressman |
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FURTHER READING:
Chase, Henry. Representative Men of Maine. Portland: The Lakeside Press, 1893, p. 13.
Dingley, Edward Nelson. The Life and Times of Nelson Dingley, Jr. Kalamazoo, Michigan: Ihling Bros. & Everard, 1902.
Gould, Lewis L. “Nelson Dingley, Jr.,” American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, Vol. 6, pp. 615-616.
Lingley, Charles R. “Nelson Dingley,” Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1933, Vol. 5, pp. 314-315.
McIntyre, Philip W. and Blanding, William F. Men of Progress. Boston: New England Magazine, 1897, pp. 481-485.
Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Nelson Dingley, Jr. Augusta: Kennebec Journal, 1899.
Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Nelson Dingley, Jr. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1899. |
