Daniel Wolsey Voorhees was a lawyer and United States Senator from Indiana, who was leader of the Democratic party and an antiwar Copperhead during the American Civil War.
He was born in Liberty Township, Butler County, Ohio, of Dutch and Irish descent. He was the son of Stephen Pieter Voorhees and Rachel Elliott. During his infancy his parents removed to Fountain County, Indiana, near Veedersburg. He graduated at Indiana Asbury University , Greencastle, Indiana, in 1849 was admitted to the bar in 1850, and began to practice in Covington, Indiana, whence in 1857 he removed to Terre Haute.
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