Switch to EncyclopediaClose XFOULKE, WILLIAM DUDLEY: 1848-1935.
William Dudley Foulke (pseudonym–Robert Barclay Dillingham),
son of Thomas and Hannah Shoemaker Foulke,
was born in New York City on Nov. 20, 1848. His father was a
minister of the Society of Friends and at one time was principal of Friends Seminary
in New York City, from which young Foulke graduated in 1863. In 1869 he received the A.B.
degree from Columbia University, in 1871 he graduated from Columbia Law School, and in 1872 he was awarded the A.M. degree.
He practiced law in New York City from 1871 to 1876,
when he came to Richmond, Ind., and entered into a law
partnership with Jesse P. Siddall, representing the
Pennsylvania Railroad. For a time in the late Seventies he
was part owner and an editor of the RICHMOND PALLADIUM. From
1883 to 1885 he was a member of the
Indiana State Senate. Mr. Foulke was a
strong advocate of civil service reform. In 1885, while he was president of the Indiana Civil
Service Reform Association, he, Oliver Morton, and
Louis Howland were members of a committee to investigate
abuses in the State Hospital for the Insane, and their report led
to corrective legislation. Theodore Roosevelt appointed him to the United
States Civil Service Commission in 1901,
following outstanding work on his part as chairman of a special committee of the
National Civil Service Reform League which conducted
investigations of the civil service. Mr. Foulke was also
interested in woman's suffrage. He was president of the American
Woman's Suffrage Association for a number of years (until 1890).
In 1890 he retired from active law practice to devote
himself to reform movements and literary pursuits. From 1909 to 1912 he served as editor of the Richmond EVENING ITEM. He was a contributor to the ATLANTIC MONTHLY, FORUM, CENTURY, and CURRENT
HISTORY. In 1872Mr. Foulke married Mary Taylor Reeves of Richmond. He died May 30, 1935.
Besides the titles listed he edited, translated and compiled several works.
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1935.
- Slav or Saxon: a Study of the Growth and Tendencies of
Russian Civilization.New York, 1887
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Close X - The Theory and Practice of Civil Service Reform.New York, 1894.
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Close X - Biography of Arthur Middleton Reeves and Correspondence.New York, 1895.
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Close X - Life of Oliver P. Morton, Including His Important Speeches.Indianapolis, 1899. 2
vols.
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Close X - Maya: a Story of Yucatan. New York, 1900.
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Close X - Civil Service in Our Own New Dependencies.
Philadelphia, 1902.
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Close X - Protean Papers. New York, 1903.
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Close X - The Reasons for Civil Service Reform. New
York, 1904.
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Close X - The Quaker Boy; a Tale of the Outgoing Generation As It
Appears Chronicled in the Autobiography of Robert Barclay
Dillingham. New York, 1910.
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Close X - Dorothy Day. New York, 1911.
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Close X - Maya: a Drama. New York, 1911.
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Close X - A German City Worthy of Emulation: a Study of
Frankfort-on-the-Main as an Example in Municipal Adminstration-Taxing the
Unearned Increment–Industrial and Public Service Enterprises of
the City; Reprinted From the American City. Washington, D.
C.
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Frankfort-on-the-Main as an Example in Municipal Adminstration-Taxing the
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the City; Reprinted From the American City" by FOULKE, WILLIAM DUDLEY: 1848-1935. in:
Close X - Lyrics of War and Peace. Indianapolis, 1916.
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Close X - Fighting the Spoilsmen; Reminiscences of the Civil Service
Reform Movement. New York, 1919.
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Close X - To-Day and Yesterday; Sonnets and Other Verses.
New York, 1920.
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Close X - A Hoosier Autobiography. New
York, 1922.
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Close X - Is Our Civilization Really Declining?Indianapolis, 1923.
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Close X - Roosevelt and the Spoilsmen. New
York, 1925.
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Close X - A Random Record of Travel During Fifty Years.
New York, 1925.
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Close X - Songs of Eventide; Heloise; Maya.
Indianapolis, 1928.
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Close X - Earth's Generations Pass; to Which Is Added an
Anthology from Lyrics of War and Peace, Some Love Songs of Petrarch, To-day and Yesterday, and Songs of
Eventide. New York, 1930.
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Anthology from Lyrics of War and Peace, Some Love Songs of Petrarch, To-day and Yesterday, and Songs of
Eventide" by FOULKE, WILLIAM DUDLEY: 1848-1935. in:
Close X - Lucius B. Swift, a Biography.
Indianapolis, 1930.
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