RARE 1888 TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT History HENRY WILLIAM BLAIR Alcohol POLITICS USS

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RARE 1888 TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT History HENRY WILLIAM BLAIR Alcohol POLITICS USS:
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THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT: OR, THE CONFLICT BETWEEN MAN AND ALCOHOL

by Henry William Blair

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Boston, Massachusetts: William E. Smythe Company, 1888.

Thick 8vo / Hardcover / 583 pp / Illustrated / Clean and tight / Some wear to boards / Light spinal edgewear /

Beautiful, rarecomprehensive temperance treatise from former United StatesCongressman and Senator Henry William Blair of New Hampshire.

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Henry William Blair(December 6, 1834– March 14, 1920) was anAmericanpolitician and aUnited States RepresentativeandSenatorfromNew Hampshire.

Early life[edit]

Born inCampton, Blair lost his father at two and his mother at twelve. Raised by neighbors on a farm, he attended school when breaks from farm work permitted. Though he never went to college, in 1856, he began reading law with William Leverett at Plymouth, and wasadmitted to the barin 1859 and became Leverett\'s partner.

Career[edit]

Blair was appointedprosecuting attorneyforGrafton Countyin 1860.

During theCivil WarBlair was rejected by the fifth and twelfth regiments as physically unfit. In 1862, when the fifteenth regiment was formed, he raised a company, enlisted as a Private and was elected Captain. He was appointed Major by the Governor and his Council. After about a year at the front, he held the rank oflieutenant colonelof the Fifteenth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry. During his first battle service, the Siege of Fort Hudson, he was wounded twice. After the discharge of his regiment in 1863, he was appointed deputy provost marshal and spent most of the remainder of the war at home as an invalid due to wounds and diseases contracted during the war.[1]

Blair was a member of theNew Hampshire House of Representativesin 1866 and a member of theNew Hampshire Senatefrom 1867 to 1868.

Elected as aRepublicanto Blair served asUnited States Representativefor the state of New Hampshire from (March 4, 1875-March 4, 1879). In 1876, he introduced the firstprohibitionamendment to be offered in Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1878 but was elected by the New Hampshire legislature to the U.S. Senate on June 17, 1879, for the vacancy in the term ending March 4, 1885, and served from June 20, 1879, to March 4, 1885. The State legislature not being in session, he was re-appointed on March 5, 1885, and elected on June 17, 1885, to fill the vacancy in the term beginning March 4, 1885, and served from March 10, 1885, to March 4, 1891. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1891. While in the Senate. He was chairman of theCommittee on Education and Laborduring theForty-sevenththrough theFifty-firstCongresses. His proposed \"Blair Education Bill\" advocated federal aid for education but never passed.[2]

Blair declined an appointment by PresidentBenjamin Harrisonas judge of theUnited States District Court for the District of New Hampshirein 1891, but accepted an appointment asEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiarytoChinaon March 6, 1891. The Chinese Government objected to Blair because of his role in passing theChinese Exclusion Actand declared himpersona non grata.[3]He subsequently tendered his resignation from the diplomatic post, which was accepted October 6, 1891.

Again elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1892, Blair served from March 4, 1893 to March 4, 1895, and was not a candidate for reelection in 1894. He engaged in the practice of law inWashington, D.C., until his death.

Death[edit]

Blair died in Washington, D.C. on March 14, 1920 (age 85 years, 99 days). He isinterredat Campton Cemetery, Campton, New Hampshire.

Family life[edit]

Son of William Henry Blair and Lois (Baker) Blair, he married Eliza Nelson on December 20, 1859 and they had one son, Henry P. Blair.

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