Graham Newell Fitch (December 5, 1809 – November 29, 1892) was a United States Representative and Senator from Indiana. Events 63 BC - Cicero reads the last of his Catiline Orations. Year 1809 ( MDCCCIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Events 1777 - San Jose California, is founded as el Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe Year 1892 ( MDCCCXCII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year The United States House of Representatives is one of the two chambers of the United States Congress; the other is the Senate. The United States Senate is the Upper house of the bicameral United States Congress, the Lower house being the House of Representatives The State of Indiana ( was the 19th US state admitted into the union Born in LeRoy, New York, he attended Middlebury Academy and Geneva College; he studied medicine and completed his medical course at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and commenced practice in Logansport, Indiana in 1834. Le Roy New York is the name of two locations in Genesee County New York: Le Roy (village New York Le Roy (town New York For other places with this name see Geneva. Geneva is a City in Ontario and Seneca counties in the Logansport is a city in Cass County, Indiana, United States. The population was 19350 at the 2006 census He was a member of the Indiana House of Representatives in 1836 and 1839, and was a professor of anatomy at the Rush Medical College in Chicago from 1844 to 1848, and at the Indianapolis Medical College in 1878. Indiana House of Representatives is the Lower house of the Indiana General Assembly, the state legislature of the U Anatomy (from the Greek anatomia, from ana separate apart from and temnein, to cut up cut open is a branch of Biology that is the consideration Rush Medical College (often referred to simply as "Rush" is the Medical school of Rush University, a private university in Chicago, Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States.
Fitch was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses, serving from March 4, 1849 to March 3, 1853; he was not a candidate for renomination in 1852 and resumed the practice of medicine. The Democratic Party is one of two major Political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. Events 51 - Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title Princeps iuventutis (head of the youth Year 1849 ( MDCCCXLIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 1284 - Statute of Rhuddlan incorporated the Principality of Wales into England 1575 - Indian Year 1853 ( MDCCCLIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common He was elected to the U. S. Senate to fill a vacancy in the term beginning March 4, 1855, and served from February 4, 1857, to March 3, 1861; he was not a candidate for reelection in 1860. Events 51 - Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title Princeps iuventutis (head of the youth Year 1855 ( MDCCCLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common year Events 211 - Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies leaving the Roman Empire in the hands of his two quarrelsome sons Click here for Indian Rebellion of 1857 Year 1857 ( MDCCCLVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the Events 1284 - Statute of Rhuddlan incorporated the Principality of Wales into England 1575 - Indian Year 1861 ( MDCCCLXI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common While in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on Printing (Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses). During the Civil War he raised the Forty-sixth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry and served as its colonel. Causes of the war See also Origins of the American Civil War, Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War The coexistence of a slave-owning South During the battles of New Madrid & Island No. 10 Colonel Fitch commanded the second brigade of General John M. Palmer's division. Preparation for battle With the surrender of Forts Henry and Donelson, Tennessee, and the evacuation of Columbus Kentucky, Gen John McCauley Palmer ( September 13, 1817 September 25, 1900) was an Illinois resident, an American Civil War General He also participated in the capture of Fort Pillow and Memphis and commanded the Union infantry forces at Saint Charles. The Battle of Fort Pillow, known as the Fort Pillow Massacre, particularly in the North was fought on April 12 1864, at Fort Pillow on The First Battle of Memphis was a Naval battle fought on the Mississippi River immediately above the city of Memphis on June 6 1862, during The Battle of St Charles was a naval engagement during the American Civil War. 1862 he resigned because of injuries received in action. He resumed the practice of medicine in Logansport and died there in 1892; interment was in Mount Hope Cemetery.
Edwin Denby, Fitch's grandson, was a U.S. Representative from Michigan and Secretary of the Navy. Edwin Denby ( February 18, 1870 &ndash February 8, 1929) was an American Lawyer and Politician who served as The United States House of Representatives is one of the two chambers of the United States Congress; the other is the Senate. Michigan ( is a Midwestern state of the United States of America. The United States Secretary of the Navy ( SECNAV) is the Civilian head of the Department of the Navy.
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| Preceded by Charles W. Cathcart |
U.S. Congressman, Indiana 9th District 1849–1853 |
Succeeded by Norman Eddy |
| Preceded by John Pettit |
United States Senator (Class 3) from Indiana 1857–1861 Served alongside: Jesse D. Bright |
Succeeded by Henry S. Lane |
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