John Witcher

John Seashoal Witcher ( born July 15, 1839 Cabell County, Virginia; † July 8, 1906 in Salt Lake City, Utah ) was an American politician. Between 1869 and 1871 he represented the third electoral district of the state of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Witcher was born in 1839 in Cabell County, which at that time was still part of Virginia and later became part of the company founded in 1863 state of West Virginia. He attended the common schools. In 1861 he was hired as an administrative clerk at the District Court. During the Civil War Union Army Witcher rose in 1861-1865 from lieutenant to lieutenant colonel on. On June 30, 1865 he was honorably discharged from military service.

Witcher was a member of the Republican Party. In 1865 he was elected to the House of Representatives from West Virginia; 1866-1869 he was managing as Secretary of State official of the State Government. In 1868 he was in the third district of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Daniel Polsley on March 4, 1869. But since he Democrat Frank Hereford defeated in the following election in 1870, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1871.

After his time in Congress Witcher was appointed by U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant appointed head of the Federal Tax Authority in the third tax district of West Virginia; This post he held between 1 April 1871 to 1 October 1876. From 1878 to 1880 he was commissioner Pension ( Pension Agent ) of the federal government in Washington. Thereafter, he served in the rank of Major 1880-1899 as Paymaster of the U.S. Army. End of his life spent John Witcher in Salt Lake City, where he died in July 1906.