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Senator Heitfeld Career Portrait of Idaho Senator
Henry Heitfeld successor to Frederick T. Dubois as Idaho United States senator is a tall broad rancher born January 1859 in St Louis to German parents. He moved west with his mother after his father's death, worked as a joiner, then homesteaded in the Big Bend region and Nez Perce county Idaho, becoming a successful rancher, farmer, fruit grower, and cattleman. He married with five children and began political life in 1894 in the state senate, leaving the Democratic party in 1892 to join the populists, rising among state leaders.
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United States
Dubois
Henry Heitfeld
Frederick T. Dubois
Idaho
Mr. Heitfeld
Great Northwest
St. Louis
Nez Perce County
New Perce
Latah
Senate
Democcratic
Cleveland