Life
He was the son of Civil War General James S. Wadsworth. He was a major in the Union Army during the Civil War.
He was a member of New York State Assembly (Livingston Co.) in 1878 and 1879. He was New York State Comptroller from 1880 to 1881, elected at the New York state election, 1879.
He was elected to the 47th United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Elbridge G. Lapham, and re-elected to the 48th, 52nd, 53rd, 54th, 55th, 56th, 57th, 58th and 59th United States Congresses, serving from December 5, 1881, to March 3, 1885, and from March 4, 1891 to March 3, 1907. In 1906, he was defeated for re-election.
In 1885, he ran again for State Comptroller but was defeated by Democrat Alfred C. Chapin.
He was a delegate to the 1884 and 1904 Republican National Conventions. He was a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1915.
He was buried at the Temple Hill Cemetery in Geneseo, New York.
U.S. Senator James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr. was his son.
The Wadsworth Hospital, at the Sawtelle Veterans Home in Los Angeles, California, is named in his honor.
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Famous quotes containing the word life:
“You realize the futility of worry. You learn to hate the small and the little. Life is a pie which you cut in large slices, not grudgingly, not sparingly. You know your limitations and proceed to eliminate them; your abilities, and proceed to develop them. You are free.”
—Alice Foote MacDougall (1867–1945)
“Your faith an’ trouth yese never get
Nor our trew Love shall never twain
Till ye come within my bower
And kiss me both cheek and chin.
My mouth it is full cold, Margret,
It has the smell now of the ground;
An’ if I kiss thy com’ly mouth
Thy life days will not be long.”
—Unknown. Clerk Saunders (l. 109–116)
“Our life seems not present, so much as prospective; not for the affairs on which it is wasted, but as a hint of this vast- flowing vigor.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)