Joseph Chappell Hutcheson

Joseph Chappell Hutcheson (* May 18, 1842 in Boydton, Mecklenburg County, Virginia, † May 25 1924 in Chattanooga, Tennessee ) was an American politician. Between 1893 and 1897 he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph Hutcheson attended the public schools of his native land and from then until 1861, the Randolph -Macon College in Ashland. During the Civil War he served in the army of the Confederacy. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and his 1866 was admitted to the bar he began in Anderson (Texas ) to work in this profession. In 1874 he moved his residence and his law firm to Houston. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In 1880 he was elected to the Texas House of Representatives.

In the congressional elections of 1892 Hutcheson was the first electoral district of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charles Stewart on March 4, 1893. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1897 two legislative sessions. In 1896 he gave up another candidacy. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Hutcheson again practiced as a lawyer in Houston. He died on 25 May 1924 in his summer residence near Chattanooga and was buried in Houston.