Andrew J. Hunter

Andrew Jackson Hunter ( born December 17, 1831 in Greencastle, Indiana; † January 12, 1913 in Paris, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1893 and 1899 he represented two times the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Even as a toddler Andrew Hunter came in 1832 with his parents to Paris, Illinois, where he later the public schools and the Edgar Academy visited. Between 1852 and 1856 he worked as a civil engineer. After studying law and his 1856 was admitted as a lawyer in Paris, he began to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1864 and 1868 he was in the Illinois Senate. He also belonged to a committee of inquiry, which reviewed the state institutions in Illinois. In the years 1870 and 1882 Hunter ran unsuccessfully for Congress. From 1886 to 1892 he was a judge in Edgar County.

In the congressional elections of 1892 Hunter was in the then newly established state-wide and 22 electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1893. Since he has not been confirmed in 1894, he was initially able to do only one term in Congress until March 3, 1895. In the elections of 1896 Hunter was elected to Congress again in the 19th district of his state, where he became the successor of Benson Wood on March 4, 1897. In 1898 his candidacy for re-election failed. He had to resign from the Parliament on March 3, 1899. In his time as a deputy of the Spanish-American War was from 1898.

In July 1908 Andrew Hunter participated in Denver as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. He died on January 12, 1913 in Paris.