Elijah Hise

Elijah Hise ( born July 4, 1802 Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, † 8 May 1867 in Russellville, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1866 and 1867 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

During his childhood came Elijah Hise with his parents to Russellville, Kentucky, where he attended the public schools. He then studied at the Transylvania University in Lexington. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. Politically Hise was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1829 he was elected to the House of Representatives from Kentucky. In 1836 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky. In the years 1848 and 1849 he was a follower of Charles G. DeWitt American ambassador to Guatemala. He also served as Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

After the death of Mr Henry Grider in 1866 Hise was the third electoral district of Kentucky as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on December 3, 1866. Since he was confirmed at the regular elections of 1866, he was able to start a new legislative session in Congress on March 4, 1867. Thus he remained there until his death on May 8, 1867. Since 1865, the work of the Congress was marked by tensions between the Republican Party and President Andrew Johnson, which culminated in a narrowly failed impeachment.