Andrew Kiefer

Andrew Robert Pine ( born May 25, 1832 in Marie Born, Grand Duchy of Hesse, † May 1, 1904 in Saint Paul, Minnesota ) was an American politician. Between 1893 and 1897 he represented the state of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Andrew Kiefer was born in 1832 in Marie Born, is a district of Mainz today. At the time of his birth, the area belonged to the German Confederation. Kiefer attended the public schools in Mainz and in 1849 emigrated to the United States. In 1855 he settled in Saint Paul down in the Minnesota Territory. In 1857 he was a curator at the shipyard. He then worked in retail. In the years 1859 and 1860 jaw was also an administrative employee at the House of Representatives from Minnesota.

At the beginning of the Civil War he was 1861-1863 in the Union army captain of an infantry unit from Minnesota. Then he had to quit for health reasons, the active military service. Instead, he was a colonel in the state militia remaining in Minnesota. Politically, jaw member of the Republican Party. In 1864 he was elected to the state legislature. In the following years the jaw worked back in the trade. He also became involved in the real estate industry. Between 1878 and 1883 he was also Clerk of the District Court in Ramsey County. In 1890 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of mayor of Saint Paul.

In the congressional elections of 1892 Kiefer was in the fourth electoral district of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he met on March 4, 1893 the successor to the Democrats James Castle. After a re-election in 1894, Kiefer was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1897 two legislative sessions. In 1896 he opted not to run again.

1898 Andrew jaw was still elected mayor of Saint Paul. At the time of his death on May 1, 1904 he was a candidate of his party for the office of city auditor ( City Controller). He was buried in Saint Paul.