Hunt, Gaillard, comp. Israel, Elihu, and Cadwallader Washburn: A Chapter in American Biography. New York: Macmillan, 1925.
WASHBURN, Israel, Jr., (brother of Elihu Benjamin Washburne, Cadwallader Colden Washburn, and William Drew Washburn), a Representative from Maine; born in Livermore, Androscoggin County, Maine, June 6, 1813; attended the common schools and was educated by private tutors; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1834 and commenced practice in Orono, Penobscot County, Maine; member of the State house of representatives in 1842 and 1843; unsuccessful candidate for the Thirty-first Congress in 1848; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses, as a Republican to the Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth, and Thirty-sixth Congresses and served from March 4, 1851, to January 1, 1861, when he resigned, having been elected Governor; chairman, Committee on Elections (Thirty-fourth Congress); Governor of Maine in 1861 and 1862; declined to be a candidate for renomination; appointed by President Lincoln as collector of customs at Portland, Maine, and served from October 31, 1863, until March 16, 1877, when he resigned; served as president of the board of trustees of Tufts College, Medford, Mass.; engaged in literary pursuits; died in Philadelphia, Pa., on May 12, 1883; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery, Bangor, Maine.
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[ Top ]Hunt, Gaillard, comp. Israel, Elihu, and Cadwallader Washburn: A Chapter in American Biography. New York: Macmillan, 1925.
In memoriam: Israel Washburn, Jr. [Portland, Maine]: S. Berry, printer, 1884.
Kelsey, Kerck. Israel Washburn, Jr.: Maine's Little-Known Giant Of The Civil War. Rockport, ME: Picton Press, 2004.
Washburn, Israel. Kansas and the Lecompton Constitution. Speech of Hon. I. Washburn, jr., of Maine. Delivered in the House of Representatives, January 7, 1858. [Washington, D.C.: Buell & Blanchard, printers, 1858].
___. Kansas contested election. Speech of Hon. I. Washburn, Jr., of Maine, in the House of Representatives, March 14, 1856, on the resolution reported by the Committee of Elections, in the contested election case from the territory of Kansas. [Washington: Buell & Blanchard, printers, 1856].
___. The north-eastern boundary. Portland: N.p., 1881.
___. Notes, historical, descriptive, and personal, of Livermore, in Androscoggin (formerly in Oxford) County, Maine. Portland: Bailey & Noyes, 1874.
___. Plan for shortening the transit between New York and London: European and North American Railway: Public lands. Speech of Hon. I. Washburn, Jr., of Maine, in the House of Representatives, March 10, 1852. [Washington: Printed at Congressional Globe Office, 1852].
___. Politics of the country. [Washington, D.C.: Buell & Blanchard, printers, 1856].
___. The power and duty of Congress, in respect to suffrage. Boston: N.p., 1869.
___. Speech of Hon. I. Washburn, Jr., of Maine, on a bill to organize territorial governments in Nebraska and Kansas, and against the abrogation of the Missouri Compromise. House of Representatives, April 7, 1854. Washington: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1854.
___. Speech of Hon. I. Washburn ... on the Presidents message vetoing the French spoliation bill. [Washington?: N.p., 1855].