Mark S. Brewer

Mark Spencer Brewer ( born October 22, 1837 in Addison, Oakland County, Michigan, † March 18, 1901 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1877 and 1891 he represented two times the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Mark Brewer attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1864 admitted to the bar he began in Pontiac to work in his new profession. In the years 1866 and 1867 he was a legal representative of the community; 1866 to 1869, he served as a court commissioner ( Court Commissioner) in Oakland County.

Politically, Brewer member of the Republican Party. From 1872 to 1874 he was a member of the Senate of Michigan. In the congressional elections of 1876, he was elected in the sixth constituency of his state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he succeeded the Democrat George H. Durand on March 4, 1877. After a re-election in 1878 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1881 two legislative sessions. During this time the Reconstruction ended in the states of the former Könföderation.

Between 1881 and 1885, Brewer was an American Consul in Berlin. In the elections of 1886, he was re-elected in the sixth district of Michigan in Congress. There he broke on March 4, 1887 from the Democrats Edwin B. Winans. After a re-election in 1888, he could spend up to March 3, 1891 two further terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. 1890 Brewer waived on a new Congress candidacy. In the following years he worked again as a lawyer. In 1896 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in St. Louis, was nominated on the William McKinley as a presidential candidate. Since 1898, until his death Brewer belonged to the Civil Service Commission, the Commission for Public Service, at. Mark Brewer died on 18 March 1901 in the German capital Washington and was buried in Pontiac.

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