Selucius Garfielde
Selucius Garfielde ( born December 8, 1822 in Shoreham, Vermont, † April 13, 1881 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1869 and 1873 he represented the Washington Territory as a delegate in the House of Representatives of the United States.
Career
About Garfieldes youth and education give the sources inconclusive. He moved to Gallipolis, Ohio, and later to Paris ( Kentucky). There he was working as a journalist in the newspaper industry. In addition, he has now received an academic education. At the same time he became interested in politics. In 1849 Garfielde was a delegate to a meeting to revise the constitution of Kentucky.
In 1851 Garfielde moved to California. There he was in the 1852 MP in the House of Representatives. In 1853 he was member of a commission to revise the laws of the state. After studying law and its made in 1854 admitted to the bar he began in San Francisco to work in his new profession. A year later, in 1855, he returned to Kentucky. At that time Garfielde was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1856 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Cincinnati, was nominated for the James Buchanan as their presidential candidate.
Since 1857 Garfielde lived in Washington Territory, where he was a 1857-1860 tax collector ( Receiver of Public Moneys ). In 1860 he ran unsuccessfully for the post of Congress delegates its territory. Later he headed from 1866 to 1869, the land surveying authorities in Washington Territory. Meanwhile, he had become a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1868 he was a delegate in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Alvan Flanders on March 4, 1869. After a re-election in 1870 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1873 two legislative sessions.
In the elections of 1872 Garfielde defeated Democrat Obadiah B. McFadden. In 1873 he was appointed head of the customs authority for the Puget Sound district. He later moved to Seattle, where he practiced law. At the same time he maintained in the federal capital Washington another firm. There he is on the April 13, 1881 and passed away.