Cyrus C. Carpenter

Cyrus Clay Carpenter


Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa's 9th district
In office March 4, 1879 – March 3, 1883
Preceded by	S. Addison Oliver
Succeeded by	William H. M. Pusey
8th Governor of Iowa
In office January 11, 1872 – January 13, 1876
Lieutenant	Henry C. Bulis Joseph Dysart
Preceded by	Samuel Merrill
Succeeded by	Samuel J. Kirkwood
Member of the Iowa State Legislature
In office 1884-1886
Personal details
Born	November 24, 1829 Harford Township, Pennsylvania
Died	May 29, 1898 (aged 67) Fort Dodge, Iowa
Resting place	Oakland Cemetery Fort Dodge, Iowa
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Susan C. Burkholder
Profession	Teacher Surveyor

Cyrus Clay Carpenter (November 24, 1829 – May 29, 1898) was a Civil War officer, the eighth Governor of Iowa and U.S. Representative from Iowa's 9th congressional district.

Early life

Born near Harford, Pennsylvania, Carpenter attended the common schools, and was graduated from Harford Academy in 1853. His parents were Asahel Carpenter and Amanda M. Thayer and he is a descendant of the immigrant William Carpenter (1605 England - 1658/1659 Rehoboth, Massachusetts) the founder of the Rehoboth Carpenter family who came to America in the mid-1630s.^[1]

Early work

He moved to Iowa in 1854 and engaged in teaching and afterwards in land surveying, working as the County surveyor of Webster County in 1856. He studied law but never practiced. In March, 1857, he joined the relief expedition sent to Spirit Lake to aid the settlers driven from their homes by the Sioux Indians in the aftermath of the Spirit Lake Massacre.^[2]

He initially served as member of the Iowa House of Representatives from 1858 to 1860.^[3]

Civil War

During the Civil War Carpenter volunteered as a private then was elected captain of volunteers on March 24, 1862, appointed lieutenant colonel on September 26, 1864, and brevet colonel on July 12, 1865 "for efficient and meritorious services" when he was in charge of commissary of subsistence in Sherman's Army on the march to the sea. He was mustered out July 14, 1865. During the war he served on the staff of Generals William Rosecrans, Grenville M. Dodge and John A. Logan.^[2]

After his service, he returned to Iowa where he married Susan C. Burkholder of Fort Dodge.^[1] He was elected as registrar of the Iowa state land office, from 1866 to 1868.^[2]

Mid life

In 1871, he was run as a Republican for Governor of Iowa, winning his first two-year term. He was re-elected to a second term in 1873, serving until early 1876. At the expiration of his term he was appointed Second Comptroller of the Treasury of the United States, where he served two years, from January 1876 to September 1877.^[2] On March 26, 1878, he was appointed as a railroad commissioner of Iowa.^[3]

In 1878 Carpenter was elected to Congress to represent Iowa's 9th congressional district, which was then made up of the sparsely-settled northwestern quadrant of the state.^[4] After serving in the 46th United States Congress, he was re-elected in 1880 and served in the 47th United States Congress. He did not seek re-election to Congress in 1882. In all, he served in Congress from March 4, 1879 to March 3, 1883.^[3]

Later life

In 1883, he again ran for the state legislature, winning election to the Iowa House of Representatives for a two-year term, and serving from 1884 to 1886.^[3]

Returning to Iowa from Washington, District of Columbia for the last time, he served as postmaster of Fort Dodge from 1889 to 1893. He also engaged in the management of his farm and in the real-estate business.^[1]

He died in Fort Dodge on May 29, 1898. He was interred in Oakland Cemetery in Fort Dodge.^[1]

References

1 2 3 4 Carpenters' Encyclopedia of Carpenters 2009 (DVD format), Subject is RIN 22395; this work contains updates to the 1898 Carpenter Memorial by Amos B. Carpenter
1 2 3 4 Benjamin F. Gue, "History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, Vol. 4 (Cyrus C. Carpenter)" pp. 42 (1902).
1 2 3 4 Throne, Mildred, Cyrus Clay Carpenter and Iowa Politics 1859-1898, 1974.
↑ Jeff Morrison, Iowa Congressional District Maps, accessed 2009-05-24.

Cyrus C. Carpenter at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

Political offices
Preceded by Samuel Merrill	Governor of Iowa 1872 – 1876	Succeeded by Samuel J. Kirkwood
United States House of Representatives
Preceded by S. Addison Oliver	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa's 9th congressional district 1879–1883	Succeeded by William H. M. Pusey

Governors of Iowa

Territorial (1838–46)	William B. Conway (acting) Robert Lucas John Chambers James Clarke

State (since 1846)	Briggs Hempstead Grimes Lowe Kirkwood Stone Merrill Carpenter Kirkwood Newbold Gear Sherman Larrabee Boies Jackson Drake Shaw Cummins Garst Carroll Clarke Harding Kendall Hammill Turner Herring Kraschel Wilson Hickenlooper Blue Beardsley Elthon Hoegh Loveless Erbe Hughes Fulton Ray Branstad Vilsack Culver Branstad

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa

1st	W. Thompson Miller Henn A. Hall S. Curtis J. F. Wilson McCrary Stone McCoid B. Hall Gear Seerley Gear S. Clark Hedge Kennedy Kopp Eicher Martin Schwengel Schmidhauser Schwengel Mezvinsky Leach Nussle Braley Blum

2nd	Leffler L. Clark J. P. Cook Thorington Davis Vandever Price Smyth W. Wolf Cotton Tufts Price Farwell Murphy Hayes G. Curtis Lane Rumple Wade Dawson Pepper Vollmer Hull Letts B. Jacobsen W. Jacobsen Talle L. Wolf Bromwell Culver Blouin Tauke Nussle Leach Loebsack

3rd	Allison Donnan Ainsworth Burdick Updegraff Henderson Birdsall Pickett Connolly Sweet Robinson Willford Gwynne Gross Grassley Evans Nagle Lightfoot Boswell Latham Young

4th	Grinnell Loughridge Walden Pratt Deering Weller Fuller Sweney Butler Updegraff Haugen Biermann Talle Le Compte Carter Kyl Bandstra Kyl N. Smith Ganske Latham King

5th	Kasson G. Dodge Palmer J. Wilson R. Clark W. G. Thompson J. Wilson Frederick Kerr J. Hamilton Cousins Good Cole Thruston Le Compte Cunningham N. Smith Scherle Harkin Lightfoot Grandy Latham King

6th	A. Hubbard Pomeroy Orr Loughridge Sampson Weaver Cutts J. C. Cook Cutts J. C. Cook Weaver Lacey White Lacey D. Hamilton Kendall Kirkpatrick Ramseyer Dowell Utterback Dowell Goodwin Cunningham Gilchrist J. I. Dolliver Coad Hoeven Greigg Mayne Bedell Grandy

7th	Kasson Cummings E. Gillette Kasson H. Smith Conger Hays Hull Prouty Dowell Wearin Jensen Hansen Scherle

8th	McDill Sapp Hepburn Anderson Flick Hepburn Jamieson Towner Evans Thurston Gilchrist Hoeven

9th	Orr Oliver Carpenter Pusey Lyman Reed Bowman Hager McPherson W. Smith Green Vincent Swanson G. Gillette Harrington Narey

10th	Holmes J. P. Dolliver Conner Woods Dickinson Gilchrist

11th	Struble Perkins Thomas E. Hubbard Scott Steele Scott Boies Campbell

AL	Hastings and Leffler

Terr	Chapman A. Dodge

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