Darwin Phelps

Darwin Phelps ( born April 17, 1807 in East Granby, Hartford County, Connecticut, † December 14, 1879 in Kittanning, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1869 and 1871 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Darwin Phelps grew up as an orphan to live with his grandparents in Portage in the state of Ohio, where he attended the public schools. He then studied at the Western University of Pennsylvania in Pittsburgh. After a subsequent law school in Pittsburgh, and his admission to the bar he began in 1835 to work in Kittanning in this profession. He was 1844-1861 eight times mayor (Burgess). He was also a 1841 and 1848 the local council. He was also a board member of the Kittanning Academy. Politically, he joined in the 1850s the Republican Party. In 1856 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of the Auditor General of his state. In May 1860 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in part in Chicago, was nominated on the Abraham Lincoln as a presidential candidate. During the Civil War he was in the 1862 Major of the State Militia. In 1865 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1868 Phelps was the 23rd electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Thomas Williams on March 4, 1869. Since he resigned in 1870 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1871. During this time the 15th Amendment was ratified.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Darwin Phelps did not occur in a political phenomenon. He died on December 14, 1879 in Kittanning, where he was also buried.