Henry L. Dawes

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Former United States Senator

Henry Laurens Dawes was an attorney and politician, a Republican United States Senator and United States Representative from Massachusetts. He is notable for the Dawes Act, which was intended to stimulate the assimilation of Native Americans by... Wikipedia

Born: October 30, 1816, Cummington, MA

Died: February 5, 1903 (age 86 years), Pittsfield, MA

Children: Anna Laurens Dawes

Parents: Mercy Burgess and Mitchell Dawes

Books: The Indian Territory, The Fisheries Treaty: Speech in the Senate of the United States, July 23, 1888, The Mode of Procedure in Cases of Contested Elections: A Paper Read at the General Meeting of the American Social Science Association at New York, October 26, 1869, and more

Previous offices: Senator, MA (1875–1893), Representative, MA (1857–1875), Massachusetts State Representative (1852–1852), and more

Party: Republican Party