Anthony Higgins (politician)

Anthony C. Higgins ( born October 1, 1840 in Red Lion Hundred, New Castle, Delaware, † June 26, 1912 in New York City ) was an American politician of the Republican Party, who represented the state of Delaware in the U.S. Senate.

After attending a private school and the Delaware College moved Higgins, whose grandfather John Clark 1817-1820 governor of Delaware, was to the Yale College, where he graduated in 1861. He received his degree in Law, he graduated from the Law School at Harvard, before he was admitted to the bar in 1864 and commenced practice in Wilmington. In the same year he also served briefly during the Civil War in the U.S. Army.

Higgins was appointed Deputy Attorney General of Delaware Also still in 1864; 1869 to 1876 he was a federal prosecutor for Delaware. In 1884 he failed in an attempt to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives; four years later he was then but a seat in Congress. From 1889 to 1895 he was a member of the U.S. Senate, after he had prevailed against the incumbent Eli M. Saulsbury; the re-election but he missed. During his time in the Senate he was chairman of the Committee on the Public Service.

After leaving politics Higgins again worked as a lawyer in Wilmington. He was one of the defenders ultimately successful impeachment of the Federal District Judge Charles Swayne.