Willard Ives

Willard Ives ( * July 7, 1806 in Watertown, New York, † April 19, 1896 ) was an American politician. Between 1851 and 1853 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Willard Ives was born about six years before the outbreak of civil war in Watertown in Jefferson County. He attended community schools, the Belleville Academy and the Lowville Academy. He then worked in agriculture, but also pursued banking transactions. He sat in the years 1829 and 1830 in the New York State Assembly. As a delegate, he took in 1846 at the World Convention of Methodists in London ( UK ) part.

In 1848 he ran unsuccessfully for the 31st Congress. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1850 for the 32nd Congress Ives was in the 19th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charles E. Clarke on March 4, 1851. He retired after the March 3, 1853 out of the Congress.

Then he was president of the Ives Seminary at Antwerp, which he equipped. He was one of the founders of Syracuse University, where he sat 1870-1886 the Board of Trustees. He then worked in agriculture. On April 19, 1896, he died in Watertown and was buried there on the Brookside Cemetery.