Political Career
Heyburn was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for election in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress, losing to Silver Republican Edgar Wilson. In 1902 Heyburn was elected by the Idaho Legislature to the United States Senate, defeating Boise attorney William Borah, who would win a Senate seat in 1906. Heyburn was re-elected by the legislature in 1908, and served from March 4, 1903, until his death in Washington, D.C. on October 17, 1912. In the Senate he served as chairman on the Committee on Manufactures (Fifty-eighth through Sixty-second Congresses). Heyburn was interred in Lafayette Cemetery, near Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.
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