Cyrus Aldrich

Cyrus Aldrich ( born June 18, 1808 in Smithfield, Rhode Iceland, † October 5, 1871 in Minneapolis, Minnesota ) was an American politician. Between 1859 and 1863 he represented the state of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Cyrus Aldrich attended the public schools of his home. After that, he held various professions. Among other things, he was a seaman, farmer, contractor for works in the public service and at the post office. In 1837 he moved to Alton, Illinois. In his new home he began a political career. From 1845 to 1847 Aldrich deputy in the House of Representatives from Illinois; 1847 to 1849 he was employed as a notary in Jo Daviess County. He then worked until 1853 for the Federal Cadastral Office in Dixon. In 1855, Aldrich moved to Minneapolis in the former Minnesota Territory, where he was active in the timber industry. In 1857 he participated in the Constituent Assembly of Minnesota. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party, founded in 1854.

In the congressional elections of 1858 Aldrich was in the second electoral district of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Wallace Phelps on March 4, 1859. After a re-election in 1860 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1863 two legislative sessions. These were initially determined by the lively debate in the run-up to the Civil War and then in 1861 by the war itself. Since 1861 Aldrich was chairman of the Indian Committee.

In 1862, Aldrich renounced another candidacy. Instead, he applied unsuccessfully in 1863 for a seat in the U.S. Senate. In 1865 he was elected to the House of Representatives from Minnesota. In the same year he became chairman of the City Council of Minneapolis. Since 1863 he was Federal Commissioner for the investigation of claims that resulted from a campaign against the Sioux in 1862. From September 1867 to 15 April 1871 was Cyrus Aldrich postmaster in Minneapolis. He died a few months after his retirement from that office on October 5, 1871.

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