Austin F. Pike

Austin Franklin Pike ( born October 16, 1819 in Hebron, Grafton County, New Hampshire; † October 8, 1886 in Franklin, New Hampshire ) was an American politician ( Republican). He represented the State of New Hampshire in both chambers of the U.S. Congress.

After he had received an academic education, Austin Pike studied law and was admitted to the Bar of Merrimack County in 1845.

Politically, he was first worked in 1850, when he was elected to the House of Representatives from New Hampshire, where he remained until 1852. From 1857 to 1858 he sat in the Senate from New Hampshire and functioned as its president. House of Representatives of the State he returned from 1865 to 1866 as its speaker back.

On 4 March 1873 he took up his mandate as Member of Parliament for New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives. There he remained after unsuccessful re-election to March 3, 1875. In the Congress in Washington Pike returned on March 4, 1883 back as a U.S. Senator, after he had prevailed against the equally Republican incumbent Edward Henry Rollins. He was Chairman of the Senate Committee on Claims, but died in October 1886 in Franklin, where he was also buried.