Orris S. Ferry

Orris Sanford Ferry ( born August 15, 1823 in Bethel, Connecticut, † November 21, 1875 in Norwalk, Connecticut ) was an American politician ( Republican), who represented the state of Connecticut in both chambers of Congress.

After attending a private school in New Haven Ferry graduated at Yale College in 1844. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1846. In 1849 he took the post of Judge at probate.

1855 took over Orris Ferry his first political office as a member of the Senate of Connecticut, where he remained until 1856. He then worked until 1859 as a prosecutor of Fairfield County. In the year 1856 he had unsuccessfully running for the U.S. House of Representatives, but two years later he was elected to this chamber. After two years in office March 4, 1859 to March 3, 1861, he missed the re-election.

After the outbreak of the civil war, Ferry joined the Union Army in 1861. First, he served with the rank of Colonel in an infantry regiment of volunteers from Connecticut, which especially in the immediate defense of Washington DC was used, before he held from 1862 to 1865 to the rank of Brigadier General in the United States Volunteers.

When the war was over, Orris S. Ferry took his political career again. He was elected in 1866 for the Republicans in the U.S. Senate and confirmed in 1873. He died during his second term of office on 21 November 1875. Meanwhile he had joined the Liberal Republicans connected, a company founded in 1872 splitting the Republican Party.