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2 unusual facts about Hugh R. Belknap


Hugh R. Belknap

He was reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress and served from December 27, 1895, to March 3, 1899.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress.


Hugh R. Stephen

After six years in the Canadian Army, including a stint with Southeast Asia Command, Hugh entered business in 1946 as owner-manager of New Method Laundries, which he sold in 1963.

He served on the boards of numerous business and community organizations, including the University of Victoria (where a building was named after him) as past chairman, BC Tel, Home Oil, Canada Trust and Brentwood College.

Hugh Wilson

Hugh R. Wilson (1885–1946), United States Ambassador to Germany, 1938

Walter M. Brackett

He was one of the artists engaged by Secretary of War William W. Belknap in the early 1870s to execute portraits of the line of succession of the secretaries, and he painted the portraits of Timothy Pickering, Samuel Dexter, William Eustis, and Henry Dearborn, all prominent residents of his native state.

William Babcock Hazen

Hazen offered testimony in one of the procurement corruption scandals that rocked the administration of President Ulysses S. Grant, which resulted in the resignation of Grant's Secretary of War, William W. Belknap.

William W. Belknap

Belknap was receiving profits from traderships, Rep. Hiester Clymer launched an investigation into the War Department.

He inaugurated the preparation of historical reports by post commanders, and proposed actions to preserve Yellowstone National Park.


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