De Witt Clinton Giddings

De Witt Clinton Giddings ( born July 18, 1827 Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, † August 19, 1903 in Brenham, Texas ) was an American politician. Between 1872 and 1879 he represented two times the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

De Witt Giddings enjoyed an academic education. After a subsequent law degree in 1852 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in Brenham in this profession. During the Civil War he served in the army of the Confederacy, where he rose to lieutenant colonel. Politically, Giddings was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1866 he was a delegate at a meeting on the revision of the Constitution of Texas.

In the congressional elections of 1870 Giddings was defeated by Republican William Thomas Clark. He appealed against the outcome of the election successfully lodged an appeal and was able to take his seat in Congress on May 13, 1872. After a re-election, he remained there until March 3, 1875. In 1876 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives again in the fifth electoral district of Texas, where he between 4 March 1877 to 3 March 1879 as the successor of John Hancock could spend a further term of office.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives De Witt Giddings was also active in the banking industry in Brenham. In the years 1884, 1888, and 1892 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions relevant, on each of which Grover Cleveland was nominated as a presidential candidate. He died on August 19, 1903 in Brenham.