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Edward Follansbee Noyes

American politician (1832–1890)

Field	Value
name	Edward Follansbee Noyes
image	Edward Follansbee Noyes at statehouse.jpg
caption	1874 painting by John Henry Witt
order1	30th
office1	Governor of Ohio
lieutenant1	Jacob Mueller
term_start1	January 8, 1872
term_end1	January 12, 1874
preceded1	Rutherford B. Hayes
succeeded1	William Allen
minister_from	United States
country	France
term_start	September 5, 1877
term_end	August 5, 1881
nominator	Rutherford B. Hayes
preceded	Elihu B. Washburne
succeeded	Levi P. Morton
party	Republican
birth_date
birth_place	Haverhill, Massachusetts, U.S.
death_date
death_place	Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
restingplace	Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio
spouse	Margaret W. Proctor
alma_mater	{{plainlist
allegiance	United States
branch	United States Army
Union Army
serviceyears	1861–1865
rank	[[File:Union Army brigadier general rank insignia.svg	35px]] Brevet Brigadier General
commands	Camp Dennison
battles	American Civil War

Dartmouth College
Cincinnati Law School Union Army

Edward Follansbee Noyes (October 3, 1832September 4, 1890) was a Republican politician from Ohio. Noyes served as the 30th governor of Ohio.

Biography

Noyes was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He was orphaned at the age of three and was raised in New Hampshire by his grandfather and a guardian. At the age of thirteen, he was apprenticed to the printer of The Morning Star, a religious newspaper published in Dover, New Hampshire. He remained an apprentice for over four years until he left to enter an academy in Kingston, New Hampshire. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1857 (4th in a class of 57 students), then moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, and attended the Cincinnati Law School.

Noyes served in the Union Army during the Civil War. He helped organize the 39th Ohio Infantry, and was rewarded with a commission as its first major on July 27, 1861. Within a few months, he had become the regiment's colonel.

Noyes married Margaret W. Proctor at Kingston, New Hampshire in February, 1863, while on leave from the army.

He was severely wounded in his ankle in a skirmish at Ruff's Mill on July 4, 1864, during the Atlanta campaign and, as a result, had his left leg amputated. Three months later, Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker assigned Noyes, who was still recuperating and using crutches, to the command of Camp Dennison near Cincinnati, breveted him as a brigadier general. Noyes commanded the post until April 22, 1865, when he resigned to become city solicitor.

He was elected in October 1866 as the probate judge of Hamilton County.

He was elected to the governorship in 1871, besting another former Union Army officer, Col. George W. McCook, by more than twenty thousand votes. He served one two-year term between 1872–74, pushing for stricter coal mine inspection laws and promoting fish conservation. He lost re-election in 1873 by 817 votes, 50.1% - 49.9%.

In 1874, he was appointed an Ohio Commissioner of the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia

He later served as Rutherford B. Hayes's Minister to France from 1877 to 1881, a patronage reward for his strong support of his fellow Buckeye soldier during Hayes' presidential campaign.

He died on September 4, 1890, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was buried in Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Notes

References

(1896). "A Portrait and Biographical Record of Mercer and Van Wert Counties, Ohio...". A W Bowen & Co.
[[#gilk01. Gilkey 1901]] : 770
(September 5, 1890). "Edward Follansbee Noyes". [[The New York Times]].
(September 8, 1890). "Gen. Noyes Buried. Followed To The Grave By The Veterans Of His Old Regiment". The New York Times.

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