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Kirkwood, Samuel Jordon

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Kirkwood, Samuel Jordon (1813-1894)

US politician and cabinet member. A lawyer and flour mill owner, he served as Iowa's Republican governor (1859-63), using his own money to equip the Iowa Union volunteers, and quashing proslavery ‘Copperheads’ with home guard troops. A two-time US senator (1866-67, 1877-81), he was briefly state governor between terms (1876-77) and served as secretary of the interior afterward (1881-82). Kirkwood was born in Harford County, Maryland.
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