John Van Voorhis

John Van Voorhis ( born October 22, 1826 in Decatur, Otsego County, New York, † October 20, 1905 in Rochester, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1879 and 1883, and again from 1893 to 1895, he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Van Voorhis enjoyed a university education. After studying law and his 1851 was admitted to the bar he began in Elmira to work in this profession. In 1857 he was a member of the local Board of Education; In 1859, he was legal representatives of this city. Between September 1862 and March 1863, he led the 28th financial district of his state. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party, founded in 1854. In June 1864 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in part in Baltimore, was nominated to the President Abraham Lincoln for re-election.

In the congressional elections of 1878 Van Voorhis was in the 30th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Elizur K. Hart on March 4, 1879. After a re-election he was able to initially complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1883. Since 1881 he was Chairman of the Mining Committee. In 1882 he was not re-elected.

According to the preliminary end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Van Voorhis practiced law in Rochester. In the elections of 1892 he was elected to Congress again in the 31st district of his state, where he could spend another term of between 4 March 1893 to 3 March 1895. In 1894, he was not nominated by his party for re-election. After his final retirement from Congress, he worked as a lawyer again. John Van Voorhis died on October 20, 1905 in Rochester, where he was also buried.