Martin F. Conway, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Martin F. Conway

American politician

Date of Birth: 19-Nov-1829

Date of Death: 15-Feb-1882

Profession: judge, lawyer, politician, journalist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Martin F. Conway

  • Martin Franklin Conway (November 19, 1827 – February 15, 1882) was a U.S.
  • congressman, consul to France, abolitionist, and advocate of the Free-State movement in Kansas. Conway was born in Harford County, Maryland, the son of Dr.
  • W.
  • D.
  • Conway and Frances (Maulsby) Conway.
  • His father was an Exploring Surveyor in the United States Navy, and a slave-owner.
  • Conway learned the printer's trade in Baltimore after leaving school at fourteen and (1) became an organizer of the National Typographical Union.
  • Find more about formation of the union from the book Origin and Progress of the Typographical Union by John McVicar, pub 1891.
  • Do a google book search and see page 7 for M F Conway's "election as chairman of the executive committee at the first national convention of journeyman printers of the United States".
  • He married Emily Dykes in 1851, and studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1852. Conway moved to the Kansas Territory in 1854, initially working as a special correspondent for the Baltimore Sun.He soon resumed the practice of law and became involved in territorial politics.
  • In March 1855, Conway was elected from Riley County to the first Territorial Council (Senate), but resigned prior to assuming his seat.
  • In 1855, he was an active member at the Free-State meeting in Big Springs and became a delegate to the Topeka Constitutional convention.
  • In January 1856, he was elected Chief Justice of the Supreme Court under the Topeka constitution.
  • In 1858, he served as president of the Leavenworth Constitutional Convention. See 1859 Letter of Thomas H.
  • Webb, Secretary of the New England Emigrant Aid Company warning Conway of persons in Boston spreading rumors about him.
  • From online archives of Territorial Kansas History. The following year, Conway was elected as representative to the U.S.
  • Congress under the Wyandotte Constitution and, when Kansas entered the Union in January 1861, he was the new state's first congressman, serving as a Republican until March 3, 1863. Conway Speech in the House of Representatives.
  • New York Times.
  • "Making New States" 1862 Find more speeches by Conway from Cornell University, Samuel J May Anti-Slavery Collection.
  • Samuel J May Anti-Slavery Collection See Conway, Martin F listed alphabetically. See mention of Martin F Conway in personal letter of John Swinton, managing editor of the New York Times, to Walt Whitman, 25 February 1863, at WALT WHITMAN ARCHIVES Note: The Emancipation Proclamation went into effect on January 1, 1863.
  • Conway spent the day in Massachusetts with Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, and Julia Ward Howe.
  • That month put forth a resolution in Congress to recognize the Confederacy then wage war on the south as war between nations. While in the U.S.
  • House of Representatives, he was known for his opposition to slavery but also served as a member of the Washington, D.C.
  • "peace convention" in an effort to avert civil war.
  • He was not returned to congress for another term, but later defended President Andrew Johnson against political assaults waged by Radical Republicans in Congress.
  • In June 1866, Johnson appointed the former Kansas congressman as consul to Marseille, France. While living in Washington, during the fall of 1873, Conway had a violent confrontation with personal and political enemy, Samuel C.
  • Pomeroy, the former U.
  • S.
  • senator from Kansas.
  • (Read about Pomeroy, bribery scandal.
  • More research and material from the period needed here.) He was arrested for firing three shots at and slightly wounding Pomeroy, but did not stand trial.
  • Conway became a patient at St.
  • Elizabeth, the Government Hospital for the Insane in Washington, D.C.,[note: There are indications of some intrigue surrounding his residence there.
  • An area for more research.] Read comments of a friend who visited Conway and spoke to "an eminent physician in Washington" about his condition in The Kansas Memorial: A Report of the Old Settlers Meeting Held at Bismark Grove, Kansas, September 15 and 16, 1879.(See page 129 - Letter from Martin F Conway and preceding paragraph.) Edited by Charles S.
  • Gleed.
  • Available at the New York Public Library (off-site.
  • The Kansas Memorial.
  • and died at age fifty-two.

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