Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Joseph B. Foraker

Joseph B. Foraker
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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/March 30, 2013 by BencherliteTalk 09:45, 25 March 2013‎ (UTC)



Joseph B. Foraker (1846–1917) was the 37th Governor of Ohio from 1886 to 1890 and a Republican United States Senator from 1897 until 1909. Born in rural Ohio in 1846, Foraker enlisted at age 16 in the Union Army during the American Civil War. After the war, he was a member of Cornell University's first graduating class, and became a lawyer. Although defeated in his first run for governor in 1883, he was elected two years later. Foraker lost re-election in 1889, but was elected United States Senator by the Ohio General Assembly in 1896. He came to differ with President Theodore Roosevelt over the Brownsville Affair, in which black soldiers had been accused of terrorizing a Texas town, and Roosevelt had dismissed the entire battalion. Foraker fought for the soldiers' reinstatement after which Roosevelt helped defeat Foraker's re-election bid. In 1972, the Army reversed the dismissals and cleared the soldiers.

Support, solid, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:37, 19 March 2013 (UTC)