David Henry Mercer

David Henry Mercer ( born July 9, 1857 Benton County, Iowa; † January 10, 1919 in Omaha, Nebraska ) was an American politician. Between 1893 and 1903 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Nebraska in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Even as a toddler moved David Mercer in 1858 with his parents in the Adams County, Illinois. After the end of the Civil War, the family in Brownsville ( Nebraska) settled. There David attended the public schools. Then he studied until 1880 at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. With a law degree from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor David Mercer completed his training in 1882. After qualifying as a lawyer, he began in Brownsville to work in his new profession. He was also a year long police judge.

In 1885, Mercer moved to Omaha. There he became active in politics for the Republican Party. He was both in Omaha as well as in the adjoining district chairman of his party. In 1896 he was both Secretary of the Republicans in Nebraska and the National Republican Congressional Committee. From 1897 to 1898 he was chairman of the party in his state.

1892 David Mercer was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he was changing in the fifth district William A. McKeighan replaced on March 4, 1893. After he was confirmed in the following elections each in his office, Mercer was able to complete up to March 3, 1903 a total of five legislative sessions in Congress. He was chairman of the Committee on public properties. In 1902 he was defeated at the Gilbert Monell Hitchcock elections. After that, he remained in Washington, where he worked as a lawyer. He died in January 1919 in Omaha, and was also buried there.