Augustus Rhodes Sollers

Augustus Rhodes Sollers ( born May 1, 1814 near Prince Frederick, Calvert County, Maryland, † November 26, 1862 ) was an American politician. Between 1841 and 1843, and again from 1853 to 1855, he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Augustus Sollers attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent law degree in 1836 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Prince Frederick to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Whig Party launched a political career. In the congressional elections of 1840 he was in the seventh election district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Daniel Jenifer on March 4, 1841. Until March 3, 1843, he was initially able to complete only one term in Congress. This time was determined by the tensions between President John Tyler and the Whigs. It was also at that time already been discussed about a possible annexation of the independent Republic of Texas since 1836 by Mexico.

According to the preliminary end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Sollers again practiced as a lawyer. In 1851 he was a delegate at a meeting on the revision of the Constitution of Maryland. In the congressional elections of 1852 he was elected to Congress again in the sixth district of his state, where he replaced Joseph Stewart Cottman on March 4, 1853. By March 3, 1855 Sollers completed a further term in the U.S. House of Representatives, which was shaped by the events leading up to the Civil War.

After the final end of his time in Congress Augustus Sollers operated again as a lawyer. He died on November 26, 1862 near Prince Frederick.