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West, Hon. Joseph Rodman of La., Lt. Col. 1st California Inf. USA, August 1861, between 1870 and 1880. [Served in Union Army as lieutenant of First Regiment, California Volunteer Infantry; gave order to torture and murder Apache chief Mangas Coloradas, who had come to meet him under a flag of truce to discuss terms of peace; President of the Board of Commissioners of Washington, D.C., chief executive of the District of Columbia].