Courtland C. Matson

Courtland Cushing Matson ( born April 25, 1841 in Brookville, Franklin County, Indiana, † September 4, 1915 in Chicago, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1881 and 1889 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Courtland Matson attended until 1862 the Indiana Asbury University, later DePauw University emerged from the. During the Civil War he joined the army of the Union from simple soldiers to up to colonel. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he started in Greencastle to work in this profession. In the following years, he was elected three times to the district attorney in the local Putnam County.

Politically Matson was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1878, he served as the regional party chairman for Indiana. In the congressional elections of 1880 he was in the fifth electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican Thomas M. Browne on March 4, 1881. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1889 four legislative sessions. From 1883 to 1889 he was chairman of the committee that dealt with disability pensions.

1888 renounced Matson on another Congress candidate. Instead, he ran for the governorship of Indiana, but was defeated by Republican Alvin Peterson Hovey with a little more than 2,000 votes behind. In the following years he practiced as a lawyer again in Greencastle. Between 1909 and 1913 he was a member of the State Tax Commission. Courtland Matson died on September 4, 1915 in Chicago and was buried in Greencastle.