Rollin Mallory Daggett (February 22, 1831 – November 12, 1901) was a 19th-century American politician, minister, and diplomat. Daggett served a single term as a
United States representative
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from
Nevada
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from 1879 to 1881.
Biography
Daggett was born on February 22, 1831 in
Richville,
St. Lawrence County, New York.
He had served in the Nevada Territorial Council. Later he was the United States Minister Resident to the
Kingdom of Hawaii from 1882 to 1885. A member of the
Sagebrush School, Daggett was also a writer.
He died on November 12, 1901 in San Francisco, California and was buried at
Laurel Hill Cemetery
Laurel Hill Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery in the East Falls neighborhood of Philadelphia. Founded in 1836, it was the second major rural cemetery in the United States after Mount Auburn Cemetery in Boston, Massachusetts.
The cemetery is ...
(which is no longer open).
References
Further reading
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*'Rollin Mallory Daggett' (2007) in ''Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors'', Farmington Hills, MI: Gale.
External links
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1831 births
1901 deaths
Members of the Nevada Territorial Legislature
People from St. Lawrence County, New York
19th-century American diplomats
Sagebrush School
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Nevada
19th-century American politicians
Burials at Laurel Hill Cemetery (San Francisco)