Timothy T. Ansberry

Timothy Thomas Ansberry ( born December 24, 1871 in Defiance, Ohio; † July 5, 1943 in New York City ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1907 and 1915 he represented the state of Ohio in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Timothy Ansberry attended the common schools and studied at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana after. Between 1893 and 1895 he was a justice of the peace in Defiance. After studying law and qualifying as a lawyer, he started in Defiance to work in this profession. Between 1895 and 1903 he was a prosecutor in Defiance County. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In 1904, he ran unsuccessfully for even the U.S. House of Representatives.

In the congressional elections of 1906 was Ansberry but then in the fifth electoral district of Ohio in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican William Wildman Campbell on March 4, 1907. After three re- elections he could remain until his resignation on January 9, 1915 at the Congress. From 1911 to 1913 he was Chairman of the Election Committee, Committee on Elections No.. 1 During his time in Congress, the 16th and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified.

Ansberrys resignation was after his appointment as associate judge on the Ohio Court of Appeals. This office he held until 1916. In that year he moved to the federal capital, Washington, where he practiced until his death as a lawyer. In the years 1920 and 1924 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions relevant. Timothy Ansberry died on July 5, 1943 in New York and was buried in Washington.