Andrew Grant Chapman

Andrew Grant Chapman ( born January 17, 1839 in La Plata, Charles County, Maryland, † September 25, 1892 ) was an American politician. Between 1881 and 1883 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Andrew Chapman was the son of Congressman John Grant Chapman ( 1798-1856 ). He was first educated at home and then attended the Charlotte Hall Academy in Saint Mary's County. Then he studied until 1858 at St. John's College in Annapolis. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and his 1860 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Baltimore in this profession. In 1864 he moved his residence and his law firm to Port Tobacco Village, where he was also active in agriculture. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1867 and 1885 he was several times in the House of Representatives from Maryland. Since 1874 he was a brigadier general member of the staff of Governors James Black Groome and John Lee Carroll.

In the congressional elections of 1880 Chapman was in the fifth electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Eli Jones Henkle on March 4, 1881. Since he has not been confirmed in 1882, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1883. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Chapman practiced as a lawyer again. In 1885 he was first deputy from 1889 and actual head of the tax authority in Maryland. In June 1888 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in St. Louis, on the President Grover Cleveland to be unsuccessful re-election has been nominated. Andrew Chapman died on September 25, 1892 at his estate Normandy near La Plata, where he was also buried.