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| birth_place = Milton, Delaware, United States192451|19}}| death_place = Cheyenne, Wyoming, United StatesProgressive Party (United States, 1912)>Progressive (1912–24) Republican Party (United States) (Before 1910; 1912) Democratic Party (United States)>Democratic (1910–12)| father = Robert Hood Carey| mother = Susan Pitt Davis| spouse = Louisa David| children = 2, including Robert D. CareyUniversity of Pennsylvania (Bachelor of Laws>LL.B.)| signature = Joseph M. Carey signature.png}}Joseph Maull Carey (January 19, 1845{{spnd}}February 5, 1924) was an American lawyer, rancher, judge, and politician, who was active in Wyoming local, state, and federal politics.In the 1860s, Carey practiced law in the eastern United States and participated in Pennsylvania and New Jersey politics. In 1869, he was appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant as the United States attorney in the Wyoming Territory and later to the Wyoming Supreme Court. After serving as the 14th Mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming, he was elected to serve as Wyoming's delegate to the United States House of Representatives, where he introduced legislation admitting Wyoming as a state. Upon Wyoming's statehood, he was selected to serve as the state's first senator alongside Francis E. Warren.In 1910, he left the Republican Party and was elected as Governor of Wyoming with the Democratic nomination. He retired from politics after leaving the governorship in 1914. He is to date the last mayor of Cheyenne to be elected governor.

Early life

(File:Young Joseph M. Carey.jpg|thumb|right|Young Joseph M. Carey)Joseph Maull Carey was born on January 19, 1845, in Milton, Delaware, to Robert Hood Carey and Susan Pitt Davis.NEWS,weblink Death Joseph M. Carey Former U.S. Senator, February 8, 1924, The Black Hills Weekly,weblink May 22, 2020, live, 1, Newspapers.com, He attended the Fort Edward Collegiate Institute until he was a sophomore in 1865. He studied law in the offices of B. F. Temple, W. L. Dennis, and Henry Flanders before graduating with a bachelor of laws from the University of Pennsylvania in 1867. On September 27, 1877, he married Louisa David and later had two children with her.BOOK, Goodspeed, Weston Arthur,weblink Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, 1904, University of California, 382, Google Books, BOOK, Bartlett, Ichabod S.,weblink History of Wyoming Volume 2, 1918, Princeton University, 5, Google Books,

Career

Politics

During the 1866 and 1869 Pennsylvania gubernatorial elections, Carey supported and gave speeches in favor of Governor John W. Geary. He cast his first vote in 1866 and was later asked by the chairman of the Republican Party of New Jersey to give speeches in multiple New Jersey towns.On April 3, 1869, Carey was nominated by President Ulysses S. Grant as the first United States attorney in the Wyoming Territory and arrived on May 8.NEWS,weblink Executive Nominations, April 5, 1869, The Buffalo Commercial,weblink May 23, 2020, live, 2, Newspapers.com, On December 14, 1871, he was nominated as an associate justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court by Grant, confirmed by the Senate on January 18, 1872, and served until 1876.NEWS,weblink Executive Nominations, April 5, 1869, Chicago Tribune,weblink May 23, 2020, live, 2, Newspapers.com, During the second session of the United States Centennial Commission, Carey was selected to represent the Wyoming Territory and served on the Committee on Nomination of Secretaries of Departments.NEWS,weblink Centennial Commission, May 21, 1874, The Philadelphia Inquirer,weblink May 23, 2020, live, 8, Newspapers.com, NEWS,weblink The Exposition of 1876, May 23, 1874, The Philadelphia Inquirer,weblink May 23, 2020, live, 8, Newspapers.com, Carey abstained when the commission voted on whether or not to allow the Centennial Exposition to remain open on Sundays.NEWS,weblink The Vote, April 29, 1876, The Philadelphia Inquirer,weblink May 23, 2020, live, 2, Newspapers.com, In 1876, he was selected to serve as the Wyoming Territory's National Republican committeeman on the Republican National Committee and remained in the position until 1897.NEWS,weblink The National Committee, June 17, 1876, The Cincinnati Enquirer,weblink May 23, 2020, live, 2, Newspapers.com,

Mayor

In 1880, Carey was elected as mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming while he was out of state by running on a public works improvement platform. He was reelected in 1881, and again without opposition in 1882. During his tenure as mayor, the city's water and sewage systems were completed, an opera house was built, and the Stock Growers National Bank was organized and selected Carey to serve as its first president.The Wyoming Development Company was founded in 1883 with the intention of bringing water to thousands of arid acres of land in the Wheatland Flats. In 1885, Carey was selected to lead the organization and built a reservoir using water from the Laramie River. Water from the reservoir was transferred throughout the flats through canals and ditches and successfully irrigated 50,000 acres of land, allowing the area to become inhabitable.BOOK, Pitcher, Don,weblink Wyoming, June 2, 2006, Avalon Publishing, 66, 9781566919531, Google Books, BOOK,weblink Wyoming, a Guide to Its History, Highways, and People, 1981, University of Nebraska Press, 289, 9780803219588, Google Books,

U.S. House of Representatives

On July 30, 1874, the Wyoming Republican Party unanimously nominated Carey at its state convention to serve as the territory's delegate to the United States House of Representatives from the at-large congressional district, but was narrowly defeated by incumbent Democratic Delegate William Randolph Steele.NEWS,weblink Republicans nominate 1874, August 1, 1874, Wilmington Daily Commercial,weblink May 23, 2020, live, 2, Newspapers.com, NEWS,weblink WY Territorial Delegate 1874, March 28, 2010, On October 22, 1884, Carey was given the Republican nomination for the at-large congressional district after Francis E. Warren declined the nomination.NEWS,weblink Nominations In Wyoming, October 23, 1884, Chicago Tribune,weblink May 23, 2020, live, 3, Newspapers.com, In the general election, he defeated Democratic nominee William H. Holliday.NEWS,weblink WY Territorial Delegate 1884, March 28, 2010, During the 1884 election, the Wyoming Democratic Party did not nominate a candidate for the at-large congressional district and Carey received almost ninety percent of the popular vote with the remainder being split among Democratic write-in candidates.NEWS,weblink Wyoming Election, November 3, 1886, The Nebraska State Journal,weblink May 23, 2020, live, 1, Newspapers.com, NEWS,weblink WY Territorial Delegate 1886, December 27, 2011, On October 8, 1888, he received the Republican nomination again and was reelected against Democratic nominee Caleb P. Organ.NEWS,weblink General Political Notes, October 10, 1888, Chicago Tribune,weblink May 23, 2020, live, 2, Newspapers.com, NEWS,weblink WY Territorial Delegate 1888, March 28, 2010, On May 18, 1887, he gave a speech at the dedication ceremony of the Wyoming State Capitol building.NEWS,weblink A History of the Wyoming Capitol, June 4, 2019,weblink May 23, 2020, live, When Territorial Governor William Hale died, Carey asked President Chester A. Arthur to nominate Warren, as he was a resident of Wyoming, rather than select a non-resident. Warren was nominated and the rest of Wyoming's territorial governors until statehood were residents of Wyoming. President Benjamin Harrison offered to appoint Carey to an important position in Wyoming, but he declined as he wanted to work towards Wyoming statehood.In 1889, Carey proposed legislation that would admit Wyoming as a state, but Congress did not act upon on his proposal. Although Carey's proposal was unsuccessful, Governor Warren still ordered an election for delegates to a constitutional convention to write a state constitution. On March 26, 1890, Carey introduced legislation to admit Wyoming as a state, passed by the House of Representatives by a vote of 139 to 127 in favor, and passed the Senate with 29 to 18 in favor. The legislation was signed into law by President Benjamin Harrison on July 10, 1890. Although Wyoming had a population of less than 60,000 at the time of its statehood, Carey stated that it did not matter as several other states had been admitted with populations lower than Wyoming's.NEWS,weblink Wyoming Becomes a State: The Constitutional Convention and Statehood Debates of 1889 and 1890 and Their Aftermath, November 8, 2014,weblink May 23, 2020, live,

United States Senate

Following Wyoming's statehood, the first state legislature held a session at the order of Governor Warren. On November 12, 1890, the state legislature voted on the appointment of its two senators to the United States Senate. Carey defeated George W. Baxter while Warren defeated M. C. Brown, John McCormick, H. R. Mann, and Henry A. Coffeen. In 1895, he ran for reelection, but the state legislature unanimously voted in favor of Francis E. Warren due to Carey's opposition to the free silver movement.NEWS,weblink Wyoming's Next Senator, January 9, 1895, The Sun,weblink May 23, 2020, live, 1, Newspapers.com,

Interlude

In 1894, he was named as honorary chancellor of Union College and was given an honorary LL. D. During the 1896 United States presidential election he stated that Governor William McKinley would narrowly defeat William Jennings Bryan.NEWS,weblink Joseph M. Carey 1896 presidential election, November 4, 1896, The Advocate,weblink May 23, 2020, live, 8, Newspapers.com, In 1897, a constitutional convention was held in Delaware where a letter from Carey in support of women's suffrage was read on February 16.NEWS,weblink Staff Correspondence of Every Evening, February 17, 1897, The News Journal,weblink May 23, 2020, live, 1, Newspapers.com, On September 6, he and his brother, Davis Carey, were thrown from a carriage. Joseph Carey received cuts on his head while Davis was uninjured.NEWS,weblink Ex-Senator Carey Injured, September 7, 1897, Washington Times,weblink May 23, 2020, live, 1, Newspapers.com,

Governor

Election

{{See also|1910 Wyoming gubernatorial election}}In May 1910, Carey announced that he would seek the Republican nomination for the Wyoming gubernatorial election.NEWS,weblink Carey Announces, May 11, 1910, Natrona County Tribune,weblink May 23, 2020, live, 4, Newspapers.com, In June, he and former state Treasurer William C. Irvine, who served as Carey's campaign manager, campaigned across Wyoming.NEWS,weblink Next Republican Chairman, January 31, 1912, Natrona County Tribune,weblink January 9, 2020, live, 4, Newspapers.com, NEWS,weblink Looking for Political Mavericks, June 15, 1910, Natrona County Tribune,weblink May 23, 2020, live, 1, Newspapers.com, On September 10, he announced that he would run as an independent in the gubernatorial election in order to break the Republican political machine that controlled Wyoming.NEWS,weblink To Break The Ring, September 11, 1910, The Daily Deadwood Pioneer-Times,weblink May 23, 2020, live, 1, Newspapers.com, On September 21, he defeated William L. Kuykendall for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination.NEWS,weblink Wyoming Democrats Assemble, September 20, 1910, The Billings Gazette,weblink May 23, 2020, live, 1, Newspapers.com, NEWS,weblink Wyoming Demos Nominate Carey to Head Ticket, September 22, 1910, Omaha Daily Bee,weblink May 23, 2020, live, 2, Newspapers.com, In the general election, he defeated Republican nominee William E. Mullen and Socialist nominee W. W. Paterson and won every county.NEWS,weblink WY Governor 1910, June 20, 2011,

Tenure

On January 21, 1911, nine senators, six governors, and thirteen representatives from the Republican Progressive League signed a declaration of principles supporting progressive legislation. Carey was one of the signatories.NEWS,weblink It's Back To The P-E-P-U-L With The Government, January 23, 1911, The Parsons Daily Sun,weblink May 23, 2020, live, 1, Newspapers.com, On January 29, 1912, he endorsed former President Theodore Roosevelt for the Republican presidential nomination against incumbent President William Howard Taft.NEWS,weblink One More Governor for T.R., January 30, 1912, The San Francisco Examiner,weblink May 23, 2020, live, 6, Newspapers.com, On July 15, he issued a call for a Progressive state convention to select delegates to attend the national convention of Roosevelt's Progressive Party.NEWS,weblink Call Issued In Wyoming, July 16, 1912, The Topeka Daily Capital,weblink May 23, 2020, live, 8, Newspapers.com, Although Wyoming had a member of Roosevelt's Progressive Party as its governor, in the presidential election, Roosevelt placed third behind Taft, who placed second, and Governor Woodrow Wilson, who won the state.NEWS,weblink WY US President 1912, April 16, 2004, In the House of Representatives election, Charles E. Winter, the Progressive Party's nominee for Wyoming's at-large congressional district, placed third behind Democratic nominee Thomas P. Fahey and incumbent Republican Representative Frank Wheeler Mondell.NEWS,weblink WY At-Large 1912, June 30, 2019, On January 20, 1913, fighting broke out in the Wyoming House of Representatives during the selection of the Speaker of the House. Carey was asked to restore order to the state house, but declined to intervene.NEWS,weblink Riot at the 12th Wyoming Legislature: Fisticuffs on the House Floor, May 24, 2015,weblink May 23, 2020, live, During his tenure as governor, he pardoned sixty-three people and commuted the sentences of ninety-six people.BOOK, Jensen, Christen,weblink The Pardoning Power in the American States, 1922, University of Chicago Press, 84, Google Books,

Later life

On October 14, 1916, Carey endorsed incumbent President Woodrow Wilson for reelection during the 1916 presidential election against Republican nominee Charles Evans Hughes.NEWS,weblink Ex-Gov. Carey Out For Wilson, October 17, 1916, Casper Star-Tribune,weblink May 23, 2020, live, 9, Newspapers.com, In 1917, he came out in support of the prohibition of alcohol in the United States.NEWS,weblink Carey Supports Prohibition, January 6, 1917, Times-Advocate,weblink May 23, 2020, live, 2, Newspapers.com, In 1918, his son, Robert D. Carey, won the gubernatorial election with the Republican nomination, making Joseph Carey the only governor of Wyoming to be the father of another governor of Wyoming.NEWS,weblink Both Governor And The Father Of A Governor, February 7, 1924, The Daily Sentinel,weblink May 22, 2020, live, 2, Newspapers.com, In January 1922, Joseph and Robert Carey traveled through the eastern United States.NEWS,weblink Joseph M. Carey Goes East With Governor, January 19, 1922, Casper Star-Tribune,weblink May 23, 2020, live, 1, Newspapers.com, In January 1924, he suffered a stroke and later died on February 5.NEWS,weblink Joseph M. Carey Said To Be Seriously Ill, January 30, 1924, Casper Star-Tribune,weblink May 22, 2020, live, 2, Newspapers.com, Following his death, he was honored by the Casper Kiwanis branch alongside former President Woodrow Wilson.NEWS,weblink Both Wilson And Carey Are Honored In Kiwanis Meeting, February 7, 1924, Casper Star-Tribune,weblink May 22, 2020, live, 1, Newspapers.com, On February 8, all business in Wyoming was suspended and members of the state government, including Governor William B. Ross, eulogized Carey.NEWS,weblink Wyoming To Honor Former Governor J. M. Cary Friday, February 7, 1924, Fort Collins Coloradoan,weblink May 22, 2020, live, 1, Newspapers.com, On February 13, the Wyoming Supreme Court had resolutions written by Hugo Donzelman, Thomas Hunter, and Anthony C. Campbell eulogizing Carey placed into the record.NEWS,weblink Eulogy of Jos. M. Carey Written Into Record of Wyoming Supreme Court, February 15, 1924, Casper Star-Tribune,weblink May 22, 2020, live, 12, Newspapers.com, In 1959, he was inducted into the National Cowboy Hall of Fame.NEWS,weblink Wyo Whiskers: Hon. Joseph M. Carey, November 4, 2013,weblink May 23, 2020, live,

Electoral history

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References

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External links

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• {{Find a Grave|6947060}}
• Carey Family Papers at the American Heritage Center
• {{CongBio|C000145}}

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