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John Willock Noble

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President
  
Benjamin Harrison

Name
  
John Noble

Succeeded by
  
M. Hoke Smith

Profession
  
Politician, Lawyer

Party
  
Republican Party

Political party
  
Republican

Spouse
  
Lizabeth Halsted

Role
  
Lawyer


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Born
  
October 26, 1831 Lancaster, Ohio, U.S. (
1831-10-26
)

Alma mater
  
Miami University Yale University

Died
  
March 22, 1912, United States of America

Education
  
Miami University, Yale University

Preceded by
  
William Freeman Vilas

John Willock Noble (October 26, 1831 – March 22, 1912) was a U.S. lawyer and brevet brigadier general in the Civil War. He served as the Secretary of the Interior between 1889 and 1893.

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Biography

Noble was born in Lancaster, Ohio, and attended Miami University. In 1851, he graduated from Yale University with honors. He then studied law at Columbus and Cincinnati, moved to St. Louis in 1855, and a year later settled in the practice of his profession at Keokuk, Iowa. There he took a prominent part in politics. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he was city attorney for Keokuk, which position he had assumed in 1859.

After the outbreak of the American Civil War Noble was commissioned as a lieutenant in the 3rd Iowa Cavalry Regiment in September 1861. He rose through the ranks and became the regiment's commander with the rank of colonel in June 1864. At the war's end he received a brevet (honorary promotion) to brigadier general and was mustered out of service in August 1865.

After the war, he became a companion of the Missouri Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, a military society of officers of the Union armed forces and their descendants. He settled in St. Louis, Missouri, where he was appointed United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri and served from 1867 to 1870.

The St. Louis Mining and Stock Exchange was formed in St. Louis in the fall of 1880 with Noble as a founding member.

He served as Secretary of the Interior throughout the entire Benjamin Harrison administration. Under his watch as Secretary of the Interior, the Cherokee Commission negotiated eleven agreements that removed nineteen indigenous tribes to small allotments in the Oklahoma Territory, while opening the land to homesteaders. He later resumed the practice of law in St. Louis and died there in 1912. He was buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery.

Namesakes

Noble County, Oklahoma was named for him in 1893.

The "General Noble" Giant Sequoia was named for this Secretary of the Interior.

References

John Willock Noble Wikipedia