Daniel Ermentrout

Daniel Ermentrout ( born January 24, 1837 in Reading, Pennsylvania, † September 17, 1899 ) was an American politician. Between 1881 and 1889, and again from 1897 to 1899, he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Daniel Ermentrout attended the public schools of his home and then the Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster and the Elmwood Institute in Norristown. After a subsequent law degree in 1859 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in Reading in this profession. Between 1862 and 1865 he was district attorney in Berks County. From 1867 to 1870 he served as the legal representative of the city of Reading. Between 1868 and 1876, he also belonged to the local school board. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In the years 1868 and 1880, he participated as a delegate to the respective Democratic National Conventions; 1895 to 1899 he was also a delegate to all the Democratic party days at the state level in Pennsylvania. In addition he was in the years 1869, 1872 and 1873 to the district committee of the Berks County. Between 1873 and 1880 he sat in the Senate of Pennsylvania. Since 1877 he was also a member of the Commission on the revision of the laws of his home state.

In the congressional elections of 1880 Ermentrout in the eighth constituency of Pennsylvania was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Hiester Clymer on 4 March 1881. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1889 four legislative sessions. In 1888, he was not nominated by his party for re-election. In the elections of 1896 Ermentrout was elected to Congress again in the ninth district of his state, where he Constantine Jacob Erdman replaced on March 4, 1897. After a re-election he was able to exercise this office until his death on 17 September 1899. In this time of the Spanish-American War was from 1898.