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James W Nye

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Preceded by
  
None

Succeeded by
  
John P. Jones

Profession
  
Attorney

Resigned
  
March 4, 1873

Name
  
James Nye

Resting place
  
Woodlawn Cemetery


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Preceded by
  
Isaac Roop as Provisional Governor

Born
  
June 10, 1815 DeRuyter (town), New York, US (
1815-06-10
)

Role
  
Former United States Senator

Died
  
December 25, 1876, White Plains, New York, United States

Political party
  
Republican Party, Free Soil Party

Previous office
  
Senator (NV) 1864–1873

James Warren Nye (June 10, 1815 – December 25, 1876) was a United States Senator from Nevada.

Biography

He was born in DeRuyter, New York, he attended the common schools and Homer Academy in Homer, New York; he studied law in Troy, New York, was admitted to the bar, and practiced in Madison County.

Nye was district attorney in 1839 and served as judge of Madison County from 1840 to 1848. He was an unsuccessful Free-Soiler candidate for election to the Thirtieth Congress in 1846, and was first president of New York City's Metropolitan Board of Police, holding that position from 1857 to 1860.

In 1861, James Nye was appointed by President Abraham Lincoln as governor of the newly created Nevada Territory; upon the admission of Nevada as a state into the Union in 1864, he was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate; he was reelected in 1867 and served from February 1, 1865 to March 3, 1873. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection. While in the Senate, Nye was chairman of the Committee on Enrolled Bills (Thirty-ninth Congress) and a member of the Committees on Revolutionary Claims (Fortieth Congress) and Territories (Forty-first Congress).

Mark Twain was briefly Senator Nye's secretary. In Sketches Old and New he gives an account of their parting, which occurred after Twain supposedly wrote ridiculous letters to constituents, following the Senator's orders not to address controversial issues.

He died in White Plains, New York, in 1876 and was interred in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York City.

Nye County, Nevada, the largest county in Nevada, third largest after San Bernardino County, California and Coconino County, Arizona in the 48 contiguous states, was named after Nye.

References

James W. Nye Wikipedia