Aaron A. Sargent

Aaron Augustus Sargent ( born September 28, 1827 in Newburyport, Massachusetts, † August 14 1887 in San Francisco, California ) was an American politician ( Republican), who represented the state of California in both chambers of Congress.

Life

After attending the public schools, Aaron Sargent went to a carpenter in teaching. He then worked as a printer in Philadelphia, before he in 1847 a position as secretary to a congressman in Washington DC found. Two years later he moved to California, where he settled in Nevada City and editor of the Nevada Daily Journal was; later he bought the paper then. In addition, Sargent was admitted to the Bar Association of the State in 1854 and began to practice in Nevada City. In 1856 he was district attorney in Nevada County.

Public offices

In the same year he worked as a member of the Senate of California for the first time politically. In 1860 he was first elected for a two year term in the U.S. House of Representatives, in which he then moved in 1869 for another four years. In 1861 he was responsible for the first legislation that has been introduced with respect to the Pacific Railroad in Congress.

From 1873 to 1879 Aaron Sargent was then one of the two U.S. Senators for California. During this time he was initially in front of the mining committee ( Committee on Mines and Mining) and later the Marine Committee ( Committee on Naval Affairs ).

In January 1878 Sargent brought an expansion draft Constitution of the United States Senate, which intended to introduce women's suffrage. His wife, Ellen Clark Sargent was a dedicated women's rights activist and friend of Susan B. Anthony, who was one of the leading members of the women's movement. The draft was rejected and placed regularly over the next 40 years without success. Not until 1920 was from Sargent's design in almost exactly the same form of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Sargent returned to the end of his time in the Senate back to California and worked again as a lawyer in San Francisco before it until 1885 as Ambassador of the United States worked in the German Empire of 1883. The appointment as ambassador to Russia after the death of William H. Hunt, he refused; Instead, he applied again for the Republican nomination for a Senate seat, but was defeated. Two years later, Aaron Augustus Sargent died in San Francisco.

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