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Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949
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Sewell, William Joyce
Sewell, William Joyce, a Senator from New Jersey; born in Castlebar, Ireland, December 6, 1835; immigrated to the United States in 1851; engaged in mercantile pursuits in Chicago, Ill.; moved to Camden, N.J., in 1860; during the Civil War was commissioned captain in the Fifth Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers, August 28, 1861, lieutenant colonel July 7, 1862, colonel January 6, 1863, and resigned July 6, 1864; recommissioned colonel of the Thirty-eighth Regiment, New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, October 1, 1864; brevetted March 13, 1865, brigadier general of Volunteers "for gallant and meritorious services in the Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia," and major general of Volunteers "for gallant and meritorious services during the war"; honorably mustered out June 30, 1865; awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor March 25, 1896, "for having assumed command of a brigade at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863, where he rallied around his colors a mass of men from other regiments and fought those troops with great brilliancy through several hours of desperate conflict, remaining in command though wounded and inspiring them by his presence and the gallantry of his personal example"; after the war became connected withrailroads in New Jersey; elected a member of the State senate from Camden County in 1872, 1875, and 1878, serving as president in 1876, 1879, and 1880; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1881, to March 3, 1887; was the caucus nominee of his party, who were in the minority, for election to the United States Senate in 1887, 1889, and 1893; delegate to the Republican National Conventions of 1876, 1880, 1884, 1888, 1892, 1896, and 1900; was one of the national commissioners for New Jersey to the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893; was in command of the Second Brigade of the National Guard of New Jersey; appointed a member of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers; again elected to the United States Senate in 1895 and 1901, and served from March 4, 1895, until his death in Camden, N.J., December 27, 1901; interment in Harleigh Cemetery.
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Chicago: U.S. Congress, "Sewell, William Joyce," Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949 in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1796 1797. Original Sources, accessed October 4, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=LL1XY4WC8MTXATV.
MLA: U.S. Congress. "Sewell, William Joyce." Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949, in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1796, page 1797. Original Sources. 4 Oct. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=LL1XY4WC8MTXATV.
Harvard: U.S. Congress, 'Sewell, William Joyce' in Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949. cited in , U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1796, pp.1797. Original Sources, retrieved 4 October 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=LL1XY4WC8MTXATV.
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