John Eugene Osborne (June 19, 1858 – April 24, 1943) was an American physician, farmer, banker, and politician who served as the 3rd governor of Wyoming and United States representative as a member of the Democratic Party. Early life John Eugene Osborne was born on June 19, 1858, although his passport stated that he was born on June 19, 1860, in Westport, New York to John C. Osborne and Mary E. Rail. In 1874 Osborne moved to Burlington, Vermont where he worked at a drug store and studied medicine at the University of Vermont College of Medicine where he graduated in 1880. Later that year he moved to Rawlins in the Wyoming Territory where he established a drug store. In 1881 he was hired as an assistant surgeon by the Union Pacific Railroad. Big Nose George Parrott Following the botched hanging and subsequent execution of George Parrott, also known as Big Nose George, in 1881, Lillian Heath was 16 when she received the skull cap of Big Nose George, and went on to become the first female physician in Wyoming. Career Early politics In 1883, Osborne was elected to Wyoming's House of the Territorial Assembly, but resigned in 1885, when he left the Territory for a brief period. In 1888, he was appointed chairman of the Penitentiary Building Commission and also elected mayor of Rawlins. During the 1880s, Osborne was a physician and chemist in Rawlins, and operated a farm, at one point being the largest individual sheep owner in Wyoming. After the lynching of Big Nose George Parrott, Osborne helped conduct the autopsy, and had Parrot's skin tanned and made into a pair of shoes he later allegedly wore at his inauguration as governor. Governor and House Osborne was an alternate delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1892. In July 1892, Osborne was given the Democratic nomination for governor at the state convention on the 37th ballot although he had removed his name from consideration before being convinced to put it back up. In the general election he defeated Edward Ivinson with 9,290 votes to 7,509 votes. On January 2, 1893, Osborne was inaugurated, wearing the shoes he had made from Big Nose George's skin, although he had attempted to take office earlier on December 2, 1892, which was ruled as invalid and premature by the Wyoming Supreme Court on January 17. He was unable to attend Grover