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Jeremiah D. Botkin


Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kansas's at-large district
In office March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1899
Preceded by	Richard W. Blue
Succeeded by	Willis J. Bailey

Personal details
Born	(1849-04-24)April 24, 1849 Atlanta, Illinois, US
Died	December 29, 1921(1921-12-29) (aged 72) Liberal, Kansas, US
Political party	Democratic

Jeremiah Dunham Botkin (April 24, 1849 – December 29, 1921) was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.

Born near Atlanta, Illinois, Botkin attended the country schools. Spent one year at De Pauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. He pursued theological studies, and entered the Methodist ministry in 1870. He was an unsuccessful Prohibition candidate for Governor of Kansas in 1888. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress. Chaplain of the Kansas Senate in 1897.

Botkin was elected as a Populist to the Fifty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1899). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress. He resumed ministerial duties. He was an unsuccessful candidate for governor in 1908. Warden of the State penitentiary, Lansing, Kansas from 1913 to 1915. He again resumed his ministerial duties. He became a Chautauqua lecturer in 1921. He died in Liberal, Kansas, December 29, 1921.

He was interred in Winfield Cemetery, Winfield, Kansas. He was married three times: Mary Elizabeth Oliver in 1889; Laura Helen Waldo, and Carrie L. Kirkpatrick.

References

- United States Congress. "Jeremiah D. Botkin (id: B000654)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

Party political offices
Preceded byWilliam Alexander Harris	Democratic nominee for Governor of Kansas 1908	Succeeded byGeorge H. Hodges
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded byRichard W. Blue	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kansas's at-large congressional district March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1899	Succeeded byWillis J. Bailey

v t e Members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kansas
1st district	Phillips Anderson Morrill Broderick Curtis Anthony Lambertson Cole H. Miller Avery Dole Sebelius Roberts Moran Huelskamp Marshall Mann
2nd district	Goodin Haskell Funston H. Moore O. Miller M. Peters Bowersock Scott Mitchell Taggart E. Little Guyer C. Little Guyer Scrivner N. George Ellsworth Avery Mize Roy Keys Jeffries Slattery Brownback Ryun Boyda Jenkins Watkins LaTurner Schmidt
3rd district	Brown Ryan Perkins Clover Hudson Kirkpatrick Ridgely A. Jackson Campbell Sproul McGugin Patterson Winter Meyer M. George Hargis McVey Ellsworth Winn Meyers Snowbarger D. Moore Yoder Davids
4th district	Ryan Kelley Otis Curtis J. Miller F. Jackson Doolittle Hoch Carpenter E. Rees Shriver Glickman Tiahrt Pompeo Estes
5th district	Anderson Davis Calderhead Vincent Calderhead R. Rees Helvering Strong Ayres Houston Hope Breeding Skubitz Whittaker Nichols
6th district	Hanback Turner Baker McCormick Reeder Young Connelly White Sparks McCarthy Carlson Smith Dole
7th district	S. Peters Simpson Long Simpson Long Murdock Madison Neeley Shouse Tincher Hope
8th district	Murdock Ayres Bird Ayres
At-large	Conway Wilder Clarke Lowe (1873–1875: Lowe Cobb Phillips) (1883–1885: Hanback Morrill Perkins S. Peters) Harris Blue Botkin Bailey Scott
Territory	Whitfield Parrott

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