John T. Wait

John Turner Wait ( born August 27, 1811 in New London, Connecticut, † April 21, 1899 in Norwich, Connecticut ) was an American politician. Between 1876 and 1887 he represented the third electoral district of the state of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In his youth John Wait and his mother moved to Norwich. There he attended the public schools and then for two years at Trinity College in Hartford. He then worked in retail. After studying law and its made ​​in 1836 admitted to the bar he began in Norwich to work in his new profession. Between 1842 and 1844, and again from 1846 to 1854 Wait was district attorney in New London County.

Wait was a member of the Republican Party, founded in 1854. Between 1854 and 1857 he ran four consecutive unsuccessfully for the office of Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut. Between 1865 and 1866 he was a member of the State Senate, while in 1866 its acting president. In addition Wait was elected in 1867, 1871 and 1873 in the House of Representatives of Connecticut, as its president, he served in 1867.

After the death of Congressman Henry H. Starkweather in 1876 John Wait was in the third district of Connecticut as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. This mandate, he took up on 12 April 1876. After five elections he could remain until March 3, 1887 in Congress. There he witnessed the end of Reconstruction. In 1886 he declined a further nomination.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives John Wait again worked as a lawyer. He died in April 1899 in his hometown of Norwich.