Columbus Delano
American politician (1809-1896) · United States · On the map · Politicians · Died at 87
Columbus Delano was an American lawyer, rancher, banker, statesman, and a member of the prominent Delano family. Forced to live on his own at an early age, Delano struggled to become a self-made man. Delano was elected U.S. Congressman from Ohio, serving two full terms and one partial one.
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Seabury Ford defeated Delano by two votes to become Ohio's Whig candidate for governor in 1848.
Ulysses S. Grant, c. 1870s
Bison skull pile, c. 1892
Hayden Geological Expedition, 1871
Lower Falls of the Yellowstone, 1871
A Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper showing Delano pretending to be Grant's arms, while offering kitchen utensils and a receipt for $25,000 to Red Cloud in exchange for the Black Hills, an offer Red Cloud refuses
Red Cloud and his party travelling to Washington, D.C. to negotiate selling the Black Hills, May 1875About this person
Prior to the American Civil War, Delano was a National Republican and then a Whig; as a Whig, he was identified with the faction of the party that opposed the spread of slavery into the Western territories. He became a Republican when the party was founded as the major anti-slavery party after the demise of the Whigs in the 1850s. During Reconstruction Delano advocated federal protection of African-Americans' civil rights, and argued that the former Confederate states should be administered by the federal government, but not as part of the United States until they met the requirements for readmission to the Union.
