Abner C. Harding

Abner Clark Harding ( born February 10, 1807 in East Hampton, Connecticut, † July 19, 1874 in Monmouth, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1865 and 1869 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Abner Harding attended the Hamilton Academy in Clinton (New York). After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he started around 1827, in Oneida County in this profession work. In 1838 he moved his residence and his law firm to Monmouth, Illinois. In his new home he beat a also a political career. In 1848 he was a delegate at a meeting on the revision of the Constitution of Illinois; 1848-1850, he was a Member of Parliament to the House of Representatives of that State. Later he became a member of the Republican Party, founded in 1854. During the Civil War he rose to brigadier general in the army of the Union.

In the congressional elections of 1864 Harding was in the fourth electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charles M. Harris on March 4, 1865. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1869 two legislative sessions. From 1865 to 1867 he headed the militia committee. During his time in Congress, the Civil War ended. Since 1865 the work of the Congress was marked the culminating of the tensions between the Republican Party and President Andrew Johnson in a narrowly failed impeachment.

In 1868 Abner Harding gave up another candidacy. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he worked in the banking industry and in railway construction. He died on July 19, 1874 in Monmouth, where he was also buried.

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