Daniel Kerr (politician)

Daniel Kerr ( * June 18 1836 in Dalry, North Ayrshire, Scotland, † October 8, 1916 in Grundy Center, Iowa ) was an American politician. Between 1887 and 1891 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1841, Daniel Kerr came with his parents to the United States. The family settled in Madison County in Illinois low. There he attended the public schools. After he graduated in 1858 McKendree College. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1862 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Edwardsville. Since August 1862, he participated as a lieutenant and later as lieutenant of an infantry unit from Illinois part in the civil war.

Politically Kerr was first a member of the Republican Party. In 1868 he was elected to the House of Representatives from Illinois. In 1870, Kerr moved to Grundy Center, Iowa, where he also worked as a lawyer. In 1875 he became headmaster in 1877 and mayor. In 1883, Kerr was a deputy in the House of Representatives from Iowa. In 1886 he was in the fifth electoral district of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he met on March 4, 1887 the successor of Benjamin T. Frederick. After a re-election in 1888 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1891 two legislative sessions. In 1890, Kerr opted not to run again.

In the years 1888 and 1896, Daniel Kerr was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions, to which Benjamin Harrison and later William McKinley was nominated as the presidential candidate of the party. He then worked again as a lawyer. Because of a dispute over monetary issues to Kerr fell out with his party and went over to the Democrats. In 1902 he applied unsuccessfully as their candidate for a return to Congress.

Between 1909 and 1916 Daniel Kerr lived in Pasadena ( California). He returned shortly before his death in 1916, according to Grundy Center back.