John Paul Verree

John Paul Verree ( born March 9, 1817 with the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † June 27, 1889 ) was an American politician. Between 1859 and 1863 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Verree was born on the estate Verree Mills near Philadelphia. He attended the schools of his home and then worked in the iron and steel industry. He also acted with tools. At the same time he embarked on a political career. Between 1851 and 1857 he was a member of the City Council of Philadelphia, which he chaired in the years 1853-1857. Politically, he joined the Republican Party, founded in 1854.

In the congressional elections of 1858 Verree was in the third electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrat James Landy on March 4, 1859. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1863 two legislative sessions. These were minted until 1861 by the events leading up to the Civil War, and since 1861 by the war itself. In 1862 he gave up another candidacy.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives John Verree took his previous activities on again. He also went into the life insurance business. In the steel industry, he founded two companies. In 1875 and 1876 he was in Philadelphia President of the local Union League, which was close to the Republican Party. Then he withdrew into retirement. He died on 25 June 1889, the estate Verree Mills.