John W. Dawson

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John W. Dawson (October 21, 1820 - September 10, 1877), was Governor of Utah Territory in 1861.

Born on October 21, 1820, in Cambridge, Indiana he was a lawyer, a farmer and a newspaper editor before he entered politics, unsuccessfully running for a seat in the Indiana State House of Representatives in 1854, secretary of state of Indiana in 1856, and United States Congress in 1858. He started as a Democrat, but later became a Republican. Abraham Lincoln named him governor of Utah Territory in 1861, but he left the territory after a month due to tensions with the Mormon residents. He died on September 10, 1877 and was interred at Lindenwood Cemetery in Fort Wayne, Indiana.[1]


Preceded by
Alfred Cumming		 Governor of Utah Territory
1861–1861		 Succeeded by
Stephen Selwyn Harding
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