Ebenezer McJunkin
Ebenezer McJunkin ( born March 28, 1819 in Top Center, Butler County, Pennsylvania, † November 10, 1907 in Butler, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1871 and 1875 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
Ebenezer McJunkin attended the public schools of his home. In 1841 he graduated from Jefferson College in Canonsburg. After a subsequent law degree in 1843 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Butler to work in this profession. In 1850 he became deputy prosecutor in Butler County. In the 1850s he joined the new Republican Party. 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 a lieutenant in the state militia of Pennsylvania.
In the congressional elections of 1870, McJunkin was the 23rd electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Darwin Phelps on March 4, 1871. After a re-election, he could remain until his resignation on January 1, 1875 in Congress. Since 1873 he was chairman of the committee responsible for supervising the expenditure of the Navy Department.
Between 1875 and 1885, was Ebenezer McJunkin Presiding Judge in the 17th Judicial District of Pennsylvania. He then practiced as a lawyer until 1900 again. Then he withdrew into retirement. He died on November 10, 1907 in Butler, where he was also buried.