Nelson Platt Wheeler

Nelson Platt Wheeler (* November 4, 1841 in Portville, Cattaraugus County, New York, † March 3, 1920 in Pasadena, California ) was an American politician. Between 1907 and 1911 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Nelson Wheeler attended public schools in his home state of New York. He then worked in land surveying and as a civil engineer. He later moved to Endeavor in Pennsylvania, where he worked in the timber industry and in agriculture. He also went into the banking business. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In 1866 he was elected county council ( County Commissioner). In his new hometown Endeavor, he held several local offices. In the years 1878 and 1879, he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1906, Wheeler was the 28th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Joseph C. Sibley on March 4, 1907. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1911 two legislative sessions. In 1910, he was not initially nominated by his party for re-election. There came indeed to a successful challenge for him this code result. He then refused to him still being transmitted re- nomination for the congressional elections.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Nelson Wheeler took his previous activities on again. In 1915 he retired for health reasons to Pasadena in California, where he died on March 3, 1920.