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JOS. C. S. BLACKBURN, EX SENATOR, IS DEADAged Kentuckian Served in ThreeAdministrations and Was CivilGmtmm of Canal Zone ____M|| , 4.1* IW’ • lt;- - r—, .W.UIHiNOTON. fttP** 12.-Joseph C. t, Blackburn form/r Senator from Ken- ; tuwky and in r«wnt year* a Resident Commissioner of the Lincoln MemorialCommission, died early today at hi* home here. He we* stricken ahortlyafter aristnc with a recurrence of heartattack* from which he we* a chroak?suffererJoseph C. S. Blackburn waa born Oct 1, }§38, In Woodford County. Ky.. but upon graduating from Center t oUeilt; be moved to Chicago, where he practiced few for two year*. In lh»l h* eapouaedthe Confederate cauae. and after servingfor thrie year* a* aid de entnp to Genera! Preston he received an independentnd in Mississippi. At th«air he returntHi to Konttiek\ »»m lawyer and planter. In 1*71 he *’**a member of the House of Representative* at Washington and retnained a member of that body for ele en year*, presiding a* Speaker pro the greater part of the aaaalona of the ,'ori) -fourth Congress. He was a delegate to the National DemmraUc lt;on-rent ton* from vm to H*4. and In IN*his name wa* prwnud to ihe convention a* Kentucky’* choice for President, but William J Bryan wa* nominated. Senator Blackburn wa a a member ofthe United States Senate ^three alt;Lmin 1st rations and was Chairman of theSenate Democratic caucua te WOJ. Harepreaentad Kentucky In the Senate fIpa to tSPJ and again from 18JR to 1907. Aa o*w of th* leaders of the, free ***'’*£ wing of the Democratic Party He tooka conspicuous P*rt 1,1 memorableCighTfC free silver In the NationalDtmocretlr CtMvef^jMRl ffi Mp*After hi* retirement from the SenatePreafdcnt Roosevelt appointed him a nembei Of tnc reorganised IsthmianCanal Commission and Civil Governor ofthe Canal Zoae, a position embracing the administration of courts, school*, public work*, and all civil organisation* He resigned in ii*» end returned lt;lt;hi* home in KentuckyJoint resolution in making himjKpeciai Resident Commissioner of the board charged with the erection of the national memorial to Abraham Lincoln ? Washington .and a year later he laid Ui# cornerstone of this monument.
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Fri, Sep 13, 1918
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