a contest that drew national attention. Dolph was not even considered a candidate when deliberations began at the state capital, but state Republican leaders elected him to the six-year term. He became the chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Coast Defenses in the Forty-ninth through Fifty-second Congresses and the United States Senate Committee on Public Lands in the Fifty-second Congress. Dolph was re-elected in 1888 to a second six-year term, but did not win re-election in 1894 and in total he served in the Senate from March 4, 1883, to March 3, 1895. Later years Upon leaving the Senate, he moved back to Portland where he returned to the practice of law, and over the years had been partners with many high-profile Portland lawyers including Joseph Simon, John H. Mitchell, Rufus Mallory, Charles B. Bellinger, and even his brother Cyrus. He and his firms represented a variety of clients that included transportation magnates Ben Holladay and Henry Villard, the Oregon Steam Navigation Company, and the Oregon and California Railroad among others. Joseph Norton Dolph died on March 10, 1897, at the age of 61 in Portland. Dolph was interred there in River View Cemetery. The former town of Dolph, in Tillamook County in the Northern Oregon Coast Range was named after the Senator. References External links Classic Houses of Portland, Oregon, 1850–1950, information on his mansion Image of his mansion Republican Party Oregon state senators 1835 births 1897 deaths People from Schuyler County, New York Burials at River View Cemetery (Portland, Oregon) Oregon pioneers United States Attorneys for the District of Oregon Republican Party United States senators from Oregon 19th-century American politicians DeWolf family