Daniel H. Sumner

Daniel Hadley Sumner ( born September 15, 1837 in Malone, Franklin County, New York, † May 29, 1903 in Waukesha, Wisconsin ) was an American politician. Between 1883 and 1885 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1843, Daniel Sumner came with his parents to Richland in Michigan, where he attended the public schools and the Prairie Seminary. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1868 admitted to the bar he began in Kalamazoo to work in his new profession. In the same year he transferred his residence and his law firm after Oconomowoc in Wisconsin. He also edited a newspaper. In 1870 he moved to Waukesha, where he practiced as a lawyer again. At that time he was head of the public schools in Waukesha and was a member of the district school board. In the years 1876 and 1877 Sumner served as district attorney in Waukesha County.

Politically, he joined the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1882 Sumner was in the second electoral district of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Lucien B. Caswell on March 4, 1883. Since he resigned in 1884 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1885. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives to Sumner moved back out of politics. In the following years he worked again as a lawyer. He died on May 29, 1903 in Waukesha.

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