Alfred Milnes

Alfred Milnes ( born May 28, 1844 in Bradford, England; † January 15, 1916 in Coldwater, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1895 and 1897 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives; previously he was its vice-governor.

Career

A native of Yorkshire Alfred Milnes came in 1854 with his parents to the United States, where the family first settled in Springville (Utah ) and later in Newton ( Iowa). In 1860 they moved to Coldwater in Michigan on. Milne attended the public schools in these places and in Salt Lake City. During the Civil War he was a soldier in an infantry unit from Michigan.

After the war he returned to Coldwater, where he was engaged in trade. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party. In the years 1876 and 1877 Milnes was sitting on the city council of Coldwater; 1885 to 1886 he was mayor of that city. Between 1888 and 1890 Milnes was a member of the Senate of Michigan. In 1894 he was elected lieutenant governor of his state. He was a representative of Governor John Tyler Rich.

Following the resignation of Congressman Julius C. Burrows, who moved to the U.S. Senate, Alfred Milnes was at the due election for the third seat of Michigan as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on December 2, 1895. Since he Democrat Albert M. Todd defeated in the regular congressional elections of 1896, he could only finish the opened legislature of his predecessor in Congress until March 3, 1897.

Between 1898 and 1902 Milnes was postmaster in Coldwater. In the years 1907 and 1908 he was a member of a meeting to revise the constitution of Michigan. He also worked in the insurance industry as well as in the real estate business. He died on January 15, 1916 in Coldwater. Alfred Milnes was married to Lucina E. Hull, with whom he had three children.

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