John Paul, Sr. (judge)

John Paul ( * June 30, 1839 in Rockingham County, Virginia; † November 1, 1901 in Harrisonburg, Virginia) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1881 and 1883 he represented the state of Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives; after that he was a federal judge.

Career

John Paul attended the public schools of his home, and the Roanoke College in Salem. During the Civil War he served as captain of cavalry in an assembly of Virginia in the army of the Confederacy. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and his 1867 was admitted to the bar he began in Harrisonburg to work in this profession. From 1870 to 1877 he was a prosecutor in Rockingham County. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1877 and 1880 he was a member of the Senate of Virginia. In 1878 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress yet.

In the congressional elections of 1880 Paul was but then in the seventh election district of Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John T. Harris on March 4, 1881. After a re-election, he could remain until his resignation on September 5, 1883 in Congress. This was after his appointment as judge. He would have his mandate but anyway have to give up because an election appeal of his rival candidates of the election of 1882, Charles Triplett O'Ferrall, was upheld.

September 5, 1883 until his death on November 1, 1901 John Paul Richter was at the Federal District Court for the western part of Virginia. His son John (1883-1964) was also a congressman.