John Dodson Stiles

John Dodson Stiles ( born January 15, 1822 in Town Hill, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, † October 29, 1896 in Allentown, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1862 and 1871 he represented several times the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Stiles first attended preparatory schools. After a subsequent law degree in 1844 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to Allentown to work in this profession. From 1853 to 1856 he was district attorney in Lehigh County. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In the years 1856, 1864 and 1868, he participated as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions relevant. In August 1866 he was a delegate to the National Union Convention in Philadelphia.

After the death of Mr Thomas Beechnut Cooper Stiles was at the due election for the seventh seat of Pennsylvania as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on June 3, 1862. After a re-election in the sixth constituency of his state he could initially remain until March 3, 1865 Congress. This period was marked by the events of the Civil War.

In the congressional elections of 1868 Stiles was re-elected in the sixth district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he Benjamin Markley Boyer replaced on March 4, 1869 was four years earlier become his successor. Since he resigned in 1870 to run again, he was able to complete only one more term in Congress until March 3, 1871. After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Stiles again practiced as a lawyer. He died on 29 October 1896 in Allentown.