Posted by Ron Gillett
on June 23, 2001, 5:12 pm
Edward Hooker Gillette (son of Francis Gillette), a Representative from Iowa; born in Bloomfield, Hartford County, Conn., October 1, 1840; attended the public schools at Hartford, Conn., and the New York State Agricultural College, Ovid, N.Y.; moved to Des Moines, Iowa, in 1863 and engaged in agricultural pursuits, building, and manufacturing; editor of the Iowa Tribune; chairman of the national committee of the Greenback Party; delegate to the Greenback National Convention at Indianapolis in 1876 which nominated Peter Cooper, of New York, for President; elected as the candidate of the Greenback Party to the Forty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1881); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1880 to the Forty-seventh Congress; Mr. Gillette became well known as an advocate of financial and landre-forms and the initiative and referendum; was an active supporter on the rostrum of William J. Bryan for President in 1896, and was candidate of the three silver parties in Iowa for auditor of state in 1898. retired from public life and resided on his farm, "Clover Hills Place," near Valley Junction, Iowa, where he died August 14, 1918; interment in Glendale Cemetery.
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