John Frank Boyd

John Frank Boyd ( born August 8, 1853 in Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, † May 28, 1945 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American politician. Between 1907 and 1909 he represented the third electoral district of the state of Nebraska in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1857 John Boyd moved with his parents in the Henry County, Illinois. There he attended the public schools and then the Abingdon College. After a subsequent law degree in 1878 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Galva (Illinois ) to work in his new profession. 1883 Boyd moved to Oakdale in Antelope County, Nebraska. Between 1888 and 1894 he was there district attorney. After that, he was from 1900 to 1907 judges in the ninth judicial district of Nebraska. Since 1901 he has been resident in the town of Neligh.

Boyd was a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1906 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of John McCarthy on March 4, 1907. After he was not re-elected at the congressional elections of 1908, John Boyd was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1909. After the end of his time in Congress, he retired from politics. He worked until 1929 as an attorney in Neligh and then withdrew completely into retirement, which he spent in Los Angeles. Here he is in 1945 also died.