Andrew H. Hamilton

Andrew Holman Hamilton ( born June 7, 1834 in Fort Wayne, Indiana; † May 9, 1895 ) was an American politician. Between 1875 and 1879 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Andrew Hamilton attended the public schools of his home and then to 1854 the Wabash College in Crawfordsville. After a subsequent law degree from Harvard University and his made ​​in 1859 admitted to the bar he began in Fort Wayne to work in his new profession. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1874 he was in the twelfth electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Godlove Stein Orth on March 4, 1875. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1879 two legislative sessions. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Andrew Hamilton practiced again as a lawyer in Fort Wayne, where he died on May 9, 1895.

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