J. Rodman West
(September 19, 1822 — October 31, 1898) West was a businessman, proprietor, lieutenant, colonel, and politician. Joseph Rodman West was born in New Orleans, Louisiana but moved to Philadelphia with his parents in 1824. He returned to New Orleans in 1841, after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania. He moved to California in 1849 and worked for a newspapers in San Francisco until the start of the Civil War. He enlisted in the Union Army and served as a lieutenant and colonel. He returned to Louisiana after the war and was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1871. He served in Congress for the Forty-Second, Forty-Third, and Forty-Fourth Congresses from March 4, 1871 to March 3, 1877.
[Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/W000303]
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Louisiana Delegation - The Civil Rights Act of 1875
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