Horace Billings Packer

Horace Billings Packer ( born October 11, 1851 in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, † April 13, 1940 ) was an American politician. Between 1897 and 1901 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Horace Packer attended the common schools and the Wellsboro Academy. After he graduated from the Alfred University in upstate New York. After studying law and his 1873 was admitted to the bar he began in Wellsboro to work in this profession. He also went into the real estate business. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. From 1875 to 1879 he was district attorney in Tioga County. Between 1884 and 1888 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania; 1888 to 1892 he was a member of the State Senate. In his home town he was for many years a member of the municipal council. In 1893 and 1894 he headed the regional party days of the Republicans in Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1896 Packer in the 16th electoral district of Pennsylvania was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Fred Churchill Leonard on March 4, 1897. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1901 two legislative sessions. In this time of the Spanish-American War was from 1898. In 1900 he gave up another candidacy.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Horace Packer practiced as a lawyer again. He was also in the real estate business, in banking and in the timber industry operates. In June 1924 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in part in Cleveland, was nominated to the President Calvin Coolidge for re-election. He died on April 13, 1940 in Wellsboro, where he was also buried.