Allen R. Bushnell

Ralph Allen Bushnell ( born July 18, 1833 in Hartford, Trumbull County, Ohio, † March 29, 1909 in Madison, Wisconsin ) was an American politician. Between 1891 and 1893 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Allen Bushnell attended the common schools and the Oberlin Academy and the Hiram Academy. In 1854 he moved to Platteville in Wisconsin. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1857 admitted to the bar he began in Platteville to work in his new profession. From 1860 to 1861 he was district attorney in Grant County. From this office he stepped back in 1861 to participate in the Civil War. He brought it to 1864 in the Union army to the Captain.

1864 Bushnell moved to Lancaster. In the same year he was again District Attorney in Grant County. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1872 he became a deputy in the Wisconsin State Assembly; in 1875 he was elected the first mayor of the city of Lancaster. Between 1886 and 1890, Bushnell was United States Attorney for the Western part of the state Wiscosnsin. Since 1891 he lived in Madison.

In the congressional elections of 1890 Bushnell was in the third electoral district of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Robert M. La Follette on March 4, 1891. Since he resigned in 1892 to run again, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1893. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Bushnell withdrew from politics. In the following years he worked again as a lawyer. He died on March 29, 1909 in Madison, and was buried in Lancaster.

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