| 词条 | Graham N. Fitch |
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|name = Graham Newell Fitch |image = GNFitch.jpg |jr/sr1 = United States Senator |state1 = Indiana |term_start1 = February 4, 1857 |term_end1 = March 3, 1861 |predecessor1 = John Pettit |successor1 = Henry S. Lane |office2 = Member of the U. S. House of Representatives from Indiana's 9th district |term_start2 = March 4, 1849 |term_end2 = March 3, 1853 |predecessor2 = Charles W. Cathcart |successor2 = Norman Eddy |office3 = Member of the Indiana House of Representatives |term3 = 1836 1839 |birth_date = {{birth date|1809|12|5}} |birth_place = Le Roy (town), New York |death_date = {{death date and age|1892|11|29|1809|12|5}} |death_place = Logansport, Indiana |party = Democratic }} Graham Newell Fitch (December 5, 1809{{spaced ndash}}November 29, 1892) was a United States Representative and Senator from Indiana, as well as a brigade commander in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Early life and careerBorn in Le Roy, 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. 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. 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. 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. While in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on Printing (Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses). Civil War serviceAfter the Civil War erupted and President Abraham Lincoln called for 100,000 volunteers to put down the rebellion, Fitch raised the 46th Indiana Infantry. He served as its colonel before being promoted to command of a brigade. During the battles of New Madrid and Battle of Island Number Ten, Fitch commanded the 2nd Brigade of Brigadier General John M. Palmer's infantry division. He also participated in the capture of Fort Pillow and Memphis. Fitch later commanded the Union infantry forces at Saint Charles in Arkansas. In late 1862 he resigned his commission because of injuries received in action. Postbellum careerFitch returned home and resumed the practice of medicine in Logansport. He 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. References{{CongBio|F000158}} Retrieved on 2008-11-05{{s-start}}{{s-par|us-hs}}{{succession box | title=U.S. Representative, Indiana 9th District | before=Charles W. Cathcart | after=Norman Eddy | years=1849–1853}}{{s-par|us-sen}}{{U.S. Senator box|state=Indiana|class=3|before=John Pettit|after=Henry S. Lane|alongside=Jesse D. Bright|years=1857–1861}}{{s-end}}{{USSenIN}}{{IndianaUSRepresentatives}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Fitch, Graham N.}} 14 : 1809 births|1892 deaths|People from Le Roy, New York|Physicians from Indiana|Members of the Indiana House of Representatives|Members of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana|Indiana Democrats|United States Senators from Indiana|Union Army colonels|People from Logansport, Indiana|People of Indiana in the American Civil War|Democratic Party United States Senators|Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives|19th-century American politicians |
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