Cyrus L. Dunham

Cyrus Livingston Dunham ( born January 16, 1817 in Dryden, Tompkins County, New York, † November 21, 1877 in Jeffersonville, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1849 and 1855 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Cyrus Dunham attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began in 1841 in Salem ( Indiana), where he had since moved to work in this profession. In 1845 he was prosecutor in the local Washington County. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In the years 1846 and 1847 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Indiana.

In the congressional elections of 1848, Dunham was in the second electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Thomas J. Henley on March 4, 1849. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1855 three legislative periods. Since 1853 he represented there as the successor of John L. Robinson the third district of his state. From 1853 to 1855 Dunham was chairman of the committee that dealt with the sewer and road construction. His time as a congressman was marked by the Ereiginissen and Duskussionen prior to the Civil War. In 1854 he was not re-elected.

From 1859 to 1860 Dunham served as Secretary of State, the executive officers of the state government of Indiana. Between 1861 and 1863 he was a colonel in the army of the Union during the Civil War. He then practiced as a lawyer in New Albany again. In the years 1864 and 1865 he was again a deputy in the State Parliament. In 1871 he moved to Jeffersonville. There, in the Clark County, he served 1871-1874 as a criminal judge; then he continued his legal practice. Cyrus Dunham died on November 21, 1877 in Jeffersonville, where he was also buried.