Joshua G. Newbold

Joshua G. Newbold (born May 12, 1830, Fayette County, Pennsylvania; died June 10, 1903, Mount Pleasant, Iowa) was a Lieutenant Governor and Governor of Iowa.

Newbold grew up in a Quaker family in Pennsylvania. He moved to Iowa in 1854, where he was a farmer. He joined the Union Army in 1862 as captain of Company C, 25th Regiment of the Iowa Infantry, and fought at the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou, the Battle of Fort Hindman, the Third Battle of Chattanooga, the Battle of Ringgold Gap, the Atlanta Campaign, and Sherman's March to the Sea.

Newbold served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1872-76. He was elected Lieutenant Governor as a Republican in 1876, and succeeded to the governorship when Samuel J. Kirkwood resigned to take a seat in the United States Senate.

From 1899-1903, Newbold was mayor of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, where he died and was buried in the Forest Home cemetery in 1903.

External links

* [http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.29fab9fb4add37305ddcbeeb501010a0/?vgnextoid=33fc224971c81010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD&vgnextchannel=e449a0ca9e3f1010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD National Governors Association profile]
* [http://freepages.books.rootsweb.com/~cooverfamily/album_10.html Portrait and Biographical Album, 1887, Washington County, Iowa, p. 143]
* [http://www.rootsweb.com/~iabiog/iastbios/bd1878/bd1878-n.htm The United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-Made Men, Iowa volume, 1878]