David Archibald Harvey

David Archibald Harvey ( born March 20, 1845 in Stewiak, Nova Scotia, Canada, † May 24, 1916 in Hope, New Mexico ) was an American politician. Between 1890 and 1893 he represented the Oklahoma Territory as a delegate in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

David Harvey came in 1852 with his parents in the Clermont County, Ohio, where he attended the public schools. During the American Civil War he was a soldier in the army of the Union. After the war, Harvey studied at Miami University in Oxford Jura. After his 1868 was admitted to the bar he began in Topeka (Kansas) to work in his new profession. Between 1871 and 1881, David Harvey lawyer for the city Topeka and from 1881 to 1889 he was a judge in a probate court. In 1889 he moved to Wyandotte in present-day Oklahoma.

Harvey was a member of the Republican Party. In 1890 he was elected as a candidate of his party for the first delegates to the Oklahoma Territory in the U.S. House of Representatives. This mandate he could exercise until 3 March 1893. After he was not re-elected in 1892, Harvey worked as a lawyer again. Among other things, he represented the interests of some Indian tribes.