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John Q. Tufts


Member of the Los Angeles City Council for the 5th ward
In office December 5, 1890 – December 12, 1892
Preceded by	Austin C. Shafer
Succeeded by	Freeman G. Teed
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa's 2nd district
In office March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1877
Preceded by	Aylett R. Cotton
Succeeded by	Hiram Price

Personal details
Born	(1840-07-12)July 12, 1840 Aurora, Indiana
Died	September 4, 1902(1902-09-04) (aged 62) Los Angeles, California
Political party	Republican

John Quincy Adams Tufts (July 12, 1840 – September 4, 1902) was an American Republican politician from Iowa and California. He was founder of a sporting goods company in Los Angeles.

Personal

Tufts was born on July 12, 1840, in Aurora, Indiana, to Servetus (or Servitus) Tufts and Emily (Dudley) Tufts. The family moved to a farm in Muscatine County, Iowa, in 1852. He attended common schools as a child and then Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa. He married Susan Shaw Cook on October 10, 1861. They had eleven children.

Tufts moved to Los Angeles in 1887. He was a member of the Masons and of the Creel Club

On September 4, 1902, he died at his home, 3303 South Grand Avenue, at age 68. He was survived by his wife and ten children, Anna D. Lyon, Emily F. Cass, Martha W. Muir, Edward B. Tufts, John Q. Tufts Jr., Will A. Tufts, Carl R. Tufts and Roy N. Tufts, all of Los Angeles; Maud S. Frick of San Francisco, and Eva S. Sanson of Indian Territory. He was interred in Angelus Cemetery in Central Los Angeles.

Vocation

Agriculture

In 1858, Tufts moved to Cedar County, Iowa, and was a farmer near Wilton in that county.

Iowa

Tufts was a member of the Iowa House of Representatives in 1870, to 1875. In his final term he was the chairman of the Railroad Committee of the Iowa House and was considered a strong advocate for railroad regulation.

U.S. government

In 1874 he was elected as a Republican to represent Iowa's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. He did not run for re-election in 1876. He served in Congress from March 4, 1875, to March 3, 1877. He was also a United States Indian Agent in the Union Agency at Muskogee in the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), from 1879 to 1887.

During his tenure as Indian Commissioner, he organized the first unit of the United States Indian Police in February 1880. In his annual report to the Secretary of the Interior, John Q. Tufts consistently asked to have the number and pay increased for the United States Indian Police. He urged the government to resolve the question of citizenship in the Indian Nation and he supported the freedman's claims to citizenship in the Cherokee Nation. John Q. Tufts also asked that laws be passed to provide imprisonment of intruders who return after being removed for the theft of coal and timber. The intruders were often whites who stole with impunity from Indian lands. In August of 1883 Tufts helped to broker peace within the Creek Nation when a faction that was dissatisfied with election results attempted a rebellion.

Los Angeles

In Los Angeles, he engaged in the real estate business and also founded the Tufts-Lyons Arms Company, a sporting-goods firm. In 1890 he was elected to the City Council from the 5th Ward. He served one term, then ran for mayor on the Republican ticket, losing to Thomas E. Rowan in 1892.

He was opposed in his race for mayor by the Los Angeles Herald, which said of him that he was "openly hostile to a large class of teamsters, hackmen and others" and that he had "also favored a cut in the wages of day laborers in the public employ." The Times, however, endorsed him because of his "recognized standing in the business community."

References

Ancestry.com
^ "John Q. Tufts Dead," Los Angeles Herald, September 5, 1902
^ "John Quincy Tufts Taken by Death," Los Angeles Times, September 5, 1902, page A-2
FamilySearch, list of children’s names
"Representative John Quincy Tufts". Iowa General Assembly. Retrieved May 24, 2024.
"Talking Right Out," Davenport Daily Gazette, September 6, 1874, page 1
"Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior for the Year 1880," p. 96 (1880)
OKLAHOMA'S Frontier Indian Police Archived 2006-04-20 at the Wayback Machine, By Art T. Burton.
"Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior for the Year 1883," p. 90 (1883)
"Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior for the Year 1884," p. 100 (1884)
"Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior for the Year 1883," p. 88 (1883)
Chronological Record of Los Angeles City Officials 1850–1938, Municipal Reference Library, March 1938, reprinted 1946
"J.Q. Tufts," Los Angeles Herald, December 4, 1892
"J.Q.Tufts," Los Angeles Times, December 2, 1892, page 4

External links

United States Congress. "John Q. Tufts (id: T000406)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
John Q. Tufts at Find a Grave

U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded byAylett R. Cotton	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa's 2nd congressional district March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1877	Succeeded byHiram Price
Political offices
Preceded byAustin C. Shafer	Member of the Los Angeles City Council from the 5th ward 1890 – 1892	Succeeded byFreeman G. Teed

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1st	W. Thompson Miller Henn A. Hall S. Curtis J. F. Wilson McCrary Stone McCoid B. Hall Gear Seerley Gear S. Clark Hedge Kennedy Kopp Eicher Martin Schwengel Schmidhauser Schwengel Mezvinsky Leach Nussle Braley Blum Finkenauer Hinson Miller-Meeks
2nd	Leffler L. Clark J. P. Cook Thorington Davis Vandever Price Smyth W. Wolf Cotton Tufts Price Farwell Murphy Hayes G. Curtis Lane Rumple Wade Dawson Pepper Vollmer Hull Letts B. Jacobsen W. Jacobsen Talle L. Wolf Bromwell Culver Blouin Tauke Nussle Leach Loebsack Miller-Meeks Hinson
3rd	Allison Donnan Ainsworth Burdick Updegraff Henderson Birdsall Pickett Connolly Sweet Robinson Willford Gwynne Gross Grassley Evans Nagle Lightfoot Boswell Latham Young Axne Nunn
4th	Grinnell Loughridge Walden Pratt Deering Weller Fuller Sweney Butler Updegraff Haugen Biermann Talle LeCompte Carter Kyl Bandstra Kyl N. Smith Ganske Latham King Feenstra
5th	Kasson G. Dodge Palmer J. Wilson R. Clark W. G. Thompson J. Wilson Frederick Kerr J. Hamilton Cousins Good Cole Thurston LeCompte Cunningham N. Smith Scherle Harkin Lightfoot Grandy Latham King
6th	A. Hubbard Pomeroy Orr Loughridge Sampson Weaver Cutts J. C. Cook Cutts J. C. Cook Weaver Lacey White Lacey D. Hamilton Kendall Kirkpatrick Ramseyer Dowell Utterback Dowell Goodwin Cunningham Gilchrist J. I. Dolliver Coad Hoeven Greigg Mayne Bedell Grandy
7th	Kasson Cummings E. Gillette Kasson H. Smith Conger Hays Hull Prouty Dowell Wearin Jensen Hansen Scherle
8th	McDill Sapp Hepburn Anderson Flick Hepburn Jamieson Towner Evans Thurston Gilchrist Hoeven
9th	Orr Oliver Carpenter Pusey Lyman Reed Bowman Hager McPherson W. Smith Green Vincent Swanson G. Gillette Harrington Narey
10th	Holmes J. P. Dolliver Conner Woods Dickinson Gilchrist
11th	Struble Perkins Thomas E. Hubbard Scott Steele Scott Boies Campbell
AL	Hastings Leffler
Terr	Chapman A. Dodge