Freeman Tulley Knowles (10 October 1846-1 June 1910) was a member of the US House of Representatives (P-SD) from 4 March 1897 to 3 March 1899, interrupting Robert J. Gamble's terms.
Biography[]
Freeman Knowles was born in Harmony, Maine on 10 October 1846, and he was raised in Skowhegan before serving as a Union Army corporal during the American Civil War (during which he fought at the Battle of Gettysburg). After the war, he became a lawyer in Denison, Iowa, and he moved to Nebraska in 1886 to become the publisher of the Ceresco Times. He moved to Tilford, South Dakota in 1888 to publish the Meade County Times, and later published the Evening Independent in Deadwood. He became active in the Populist Party, serving in the US House of Representatives from 1897 to 1899 and later becoming a journalist for the Socialist Party of America. In 1908, he was sentenced to a year in prison for sending "obscene material" through the mail (socialist writings), and he died in Deadwood in 1910.