| 词条 | Willis Sweet |
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| name=Willis Sweet | image=WillisSweet.jpg | image_size = 200 | state=Idaho | district=at-large | term_start = October 1, 1890 | term_end = March 3, 1895 | preceded=Fred Dubois (as territorial delegate) | succeeded=Edgar Wilson | birth_date= {{birth date|1856|1|1}} | birth_place=Alburgh, Vermont, U.S. | death_date={{death date and age|1925|7|9|1856|1|1}} | death_place=San Juan, Puerto Rico | resting_place = Puerto Rico | residence= | spouse= | profession=Attorney | religion= | party=Republican |}} Willis Sweet (January 1, 1856 – July 9, 1925) was the first United States Representative elected from Idaho following statehood in 1890. Sweet served as a Republican in the House from 1890 to 1895, representing the state at-large. Early yearsBorn in Alburgh, Vermont on New Year's Day 1856, Sweet attended public schools and the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, and was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He learned the printer's trade in Lincoln and relocated west to Moscow in the Idaho Territory in 1881. Sweet was the first editor of the Moscow Mirror in 1882,[1] studied law and became an attorney, judge, and supreme court justice in the territory. Also a territorial legislator, he was instrumental in bringing the University of Idaho to Moscow,[2] and was the first president of its board of regents.[3] CareerSweet was a candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1896, but was defeated in the Idaho Legislature by Populist Henry Heitfeld. He was an attorney in north Idaho in Coeur d'Alene until his appointment as the attorney general of Puerto Rico in 1903.[4] Sweet served until 1905 and then worked as a newspaper editor in San Juan from 1913 until his death in 1925.[3][5] Residence Hall in his honorA residence hall at the University of Idaho is named for Sweet.[6] Opened {{nowrap|in 1936,}} the building is now Carol Ryrie Brink Hall, a faculty office {{nowrap|building.[7]}} The Willis Sweet residence hall was relocated to the new Theophilus Tower {{nowrap|in 1969,[8][9]}} and later to the former McConnell Hall, on the northeast corner of Sixth and Rayburn {{nowrap|streets.[10]}} References1. ^{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KpBfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vDAMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3474,2344305|newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune|location=(Idaho)|title=Rival papers at Moscow merged|date=November 1, 1939|page=12}} 2. ^{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jtgtAAAAIBAJ&sjid=0NAFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4270,2152235|newspaper=Idahonian|location=(Moscow)|last=Petersen|first=Keith|title=Genesee legislator wrote bill creating the university|date=June 18, 1988|page=3C}} 3. ^1 {{cite web|url= http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/dm/dm2001/wsweet.html|publisher=University of Idaho Library|title=Willis Sweet and the founding of the university |date=January 2001|accessdate=November 29, 2012}} 4. ^{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_bdXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5_MDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3257,5067596|newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle|location=(Washington)|title=Idaho man given important appointment|date=May 7, 1903|page=1}} 5. ^{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2OgUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3uEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5594,1093182 |newspaper=Spokesman-Review |location=(Spokane, Washington) |last=Dubois |first=Fred T. |authorlink=Fred Dubois |title=Sweet greatest orator of Idaho|date=August 6, 1925|page=10}} 6. ^{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=M21WAAAAIBAJ&sjid=meMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1635,7274491|newspaper=Spokesman-Review|location=(Spokane, Washington)|agency=Associated Press|title=New residence hall honors Willis Sweet|date=July 30, 1936|page=10}} 7. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/campus/locations/BrinkandPhinneyHalls.html |publisher=University of Idaho |agency=(Campus Photograph Collection) |title=Brink and Phinney Halls |date=1936 |accessdate=August 4, 2018}} 8. ^{{cite web|url=http://issuu.com/uidahodigital/docs/gem1970-71/264|publisher=Gem of the Mountains, University of Idaho yearbook|title=Theophilus Tower|date=1971 |agency=(1970-71, 2 yrs)|page=261}} 9. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/campus/locations/TheophilusTower.html |publisher=University of Idaho |agency=(Campus Photograph Collection) |title=Theophilus Tower |date=1967 |accessdate=August 4, 2018}} 10. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/campus/locations/McConnellHall.html|publisher=University of Idaho |agency=(Campus Photograph Collection) |title=McConnell Hall |date=1957 |accessdate=August 4, 2018}} External links{{Portal|Biography}}{{CongBio|S001110}}
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