FORAKER, Joseph Benson, American tatesman: b. on farm near Rainsboro, High and County, Ohio, 5 July 1846; d. Cincinnati, 0 May 1917. He pursued his education on hrough various Ohio institutions and in 1862 nlisted as a private in A company, Eighty unth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served until the close of the Civil War, when ie was mustered out with the rank of first ieutenant and brevet captain. After the war tie was graduated in 1869 from Cornell Uni versity, and began the practice of law in Cin zinnati. In 1882 he was elected judge of the Superior Court at Cincinnati and in 1883 was nominated on the Republican ticket for gov ernor of Ohio. He was defeated by former Governor Bishop, but two years later, with the backing of John Sherman, then United States Senator from Ohio, he was elected and was re-elected in 1::7. He accepted the nomina tion for a third term in 1889 and went down to defeat in the great landslide against his party in that year. He resumed his practice of law in Cincinnati but was considered at all times a political factor. In 1897 he became United States Senator from Ohio, succeeding Calvin S. Bryce. He was chairman of the Ohio Re
publican State Conventions in 1886, 1890, 1896 and 1900, was a delegate at large from Ohio to the national Republican conventions of 1884, 1888, 1892, 1896, 1900 and 1904, and in the 1884 and 1888 conventions presented the name of John Sherman for the nomination for the Presidency. He also presented the.name of William McKinley for the Presidency in 1896 and 1900. His last term as United States Senator expired 4 March 1909. He supported McKinley but friction developed between him self and Roosevelt, many of whose measures he opposed. The only active part taken in politics by Senator Foraker after his retirement from public life was his candidacy for the Re publican nomination for United States Senator in 1914, in an effort to clear himself of charges based on the testimony of Colonel Mu!hall before an investigation committee of the Senate. He was defeated by Senator Warren G. Hard ing. Senator Foraker after his retirement from the Senate devoted most of his time to the practice of law.