Joshua G. Newbold

Joshua G. Newbold
Lieutenant Governor of Iowa
In office 1876–1877
Governor	Samuel J. Kirkwood
Preceded by	Joseph Dysart
Succeeded by	Frank T. Campbell
10th Governor of Iowa
In office February 1, 1877 – January 17, 1878
Lieutenant	vacant
Preceded by	Samuel J. Kirkwood
Succeeded by	John H. Gear
Personal details
Born	May 12, 1830 Fayette County, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	June 10, 1903 (aged 73) Mount Pleasant, Iowa, U.S.
Political party	Republican

Joshua G. Newbold (May 12, 1830 in Fayette County, Pennsylvania – June 10, 1903 in Mount Pleasant, Iowa) was the tenth Governor of Iowa.

Early life

Newbold grew up in a Quaker family in Pennsylvania. Later he became a Baptist. He moved to Iowa in 1854, where he was a farmer.

Civil war service

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.

Postbellum

Newbold served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1872-76. He was elected the 11th 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.

References

• National Governors Association profile
• Portrait and Biographical Album, 1887, Washington County, Iowa, p. 143
• The United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-Made Men, Iowa volume, 1878