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| Name | Joel Prescott Heatwole |
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Northfield, Minnesota , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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August 22, 1856
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| Died | April 04, 1910
(53 years)
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| Contributor | The Oncoming Storm |
| Last Modifed | RBH
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| Info | HEATWOLE, Joel Prescott, a Representative from Minnesota; born at Waterford Mills, Elkhart County, Ind., August 22, 1856; attended the public schools; learned the printer’s trade; taught school and later became superintendent of the Millersburg (Ind.) School; employed by the Millersburg newspaper in 1876 and afterward became editor and proprietor; moved to Minnesota in 1882 and settled in Glencoe; in 1884 moved to Northfield, Minn., and published the Northfield News; delegate to the Republican State conventions in 1886 and 1888; elected secretary of the Republican State central committee in 1886 and 1888 and served as chairman in 1890; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1888; appointed a member of the board of regents of the State university in 1890; president of the State Editorial Association; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1892 to the Fifty-third Congress; elected mayor of Northfield in 1894; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1903); chairman, Committee on Ventilation and Acoustics (Fifty-fifth Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1902; resumed his former newspaper pursuits; unsuccessful candidate for nomination for Governor of Minnesota in 1908; died in Northfield, Minn., April 4, 1910; interment in Oaklawn Cemetery.
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