Aaron Shaw (representative)

Aaron Shaw ( * December 19, 1811 in Goshen, Orange County, New York, † January 7, 1887 in Olney, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1857 and 1859, and again from 1883 to 1885, he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Aaron Shaw attended the Montgomery Academy in his New York home. After a subsequent study of law in Goshen and his 1833 was admitted to the bar he began in Lawrenceville (Illinois ) to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. He was a delegate at the first conference to improve the infrastructure of Illinois. In 1842, Shaw was appointed prosecutor; In 1850 he was elected to the House of Representatives from Illinois.

In the congressional elections of 1856 Shaw was in the seventh election district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of James C. Allen on March 4, 1857. Since he resigned in 1858 to further candidacy, he was initially able to do only one term in Congress until March 3, 1859. This was marked by the events leading up to the Civil War.

In 1860, Aaron Shaw was again a deputy in the House of Representatives from Illinois. Between 1863 and 1869 he served as a judge in the fourth judicial district of his state. In the elections of 1882 he was elected to Congress again in the 16th district of Illinois, where he completed another legislative session as the successor to William AJ Sparks between the 4th March 1883, March 3, 1885. In 1884, he did not run. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Aaron Shaw practiced as a lawyer again. He died on January 7, 1887 in Olney.