Donald C. McRuer

Donald Campbell McRuer ( born March 10, 1826 in Bangor, Maine; † January 29, 1898 in St. Helena, California ) was an American politician. Between 1865 and 1867 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

McRuer Donald received an academic education. In 1851 he moved to San Francisco in California, where he worked as a commission merchant. In the years 1859 and 1860, he also belonged to the Education Committee of the city of San Francisco. During the Civil War McRuer was sitting in the Federal Health Commission ( United States Sanitary Commission ), which was then cared for the wounded soldiers. Politically, he joined the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1864 McRuer was the first electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Cornelius Cole on March 4, 1865. Since he resigned in 1866 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1867. During this time, ended the civil war. Since April 1865, the work of the Congress was overshadowed by the tensions between the Republican Party and the new President Andrew Johnson.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives McRuer traveled for two years Europe. He then returned to San Francisco, where he spent four years as a Harbor Commissioner directed the Port Authority. He was also a board member of the Security Savings Bank of San Francisco. McRuer Donald died on January 29, 1898 in St. Helena, where he was also buried.

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