Jeremiah Dunham Botkin

Populist Representative of Kansas

Congresses Served

House Terms

April 24, 1849 (72 years old)

Birthday

December 29, 1921

Death

Served as a U.S. Representative from Kansas in the late 19th century.
Attended country schools and spent a year at De Pauw University.
Entered the Methodist ministry in 1870 after pursuing theological studies.
Ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Kansas as a Prohibition candidate in 1888.
Served as Chaplain of the Kansas Senate in 1897.
Elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Populist, serving from 1897 to 1899.
Did not win reelection for the Fifty-sixth Congress in 1898.
Held the position of Warden of the State Penitentiary in Lansing, Kansas, from 1913 to 1915.
Became a Chautauqua lecturer in 1921.
Married three times throughout his life.