Andrew J. Harlan

Andrew Jackson Harlan (born 29 March 1815 to Wilmington, Ohio, † May 19, 1907 in Savannah, Missouri ) was an American politician. Between 1849 and 1855 he represented two times the state of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Andrew Harlan was a cousin of Congressman Aaron Harlan (1802-1868) from Ohio. He attended the common schools. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1839 admitted to the bar he began in Richmond (Indiana) to work in this profession. In the same year he moved to Marion. In 1842, he was an administrative employee at the House of Representatives from Indiana.

Politically, Harlan was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1846 and 1848 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Indiana. In the congressional elections of 1848 he was in the tenth constituency of his state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Rockhill on March 4, 1849. Until March 3, 1851, he was initially able to complete a term in Congress. In 1852 he was elected to Congress again in the then newly eleventh district of Indiana, where he could spend another term between March 4, 1853, and March 3, 1855. During this time he was chairman of the Committee on Mileage. Because he spoke out against the withdrawal of the Missouri Compromise, he was expelled from his party.

In 1854, Harlan refused a nomination for re-election as a candidate of the short-lived People's Party. He then became a member of the newly formed Republican Party. In 1861 he moved to the Dakota Territory; where he was a member and President of the Territorial House of Representatives. In September 1862, he was expelled during an Indian uprising of the Indians from Dakota. He then settled in Savannah (Missouri ), where he practiced as a lawyer again. Between 1864 and 1868 Harlan was a deputy in the House of Representatives from Missouri, he served as its chairman since 1866. Then he moved to Wakeeney, Kansas. There he worked as a lawyer. Between 1890 and 1894 he was there and post holder. He then returned to Savannah, where he died on May 19, 1907.

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