Edward Breitung

Edward Breitung ( born November 10, 1831 in Schalkau, Germany, † March 3, 1887 in Negaunee, Michigan ) was an American politician of German origin. Between 1883 and 1885 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Born in Thuringia Edward Breitung attended the public schools in his homeland. After the failed revolution of 1848, he emigrated to the United States, where he first settled in Michigan in Kalamazoo County. In 1851 he moved to Detroit, where he was employed by a trading house. In 1859, he moved on to Negaunee, where he was active in the iron mining from 1864. Later he expanded his business to gold and silver mines in Colorado.

Politically, Breitung member of the Republican Party. In 1873 and 1874 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Michigan; 1877 to 1878 he was a member of the State Senate. He was also from 1879 to 1882 twice mayor of Negaunee. In the congressional elections of 1882 Breitung was in the then newly eleventh electoral district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on January 3, 1883. Since he resigned in 1884 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1885.

Edward Breitung died exactly two years after his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives on March 3, 1887. He was buried in Marquette.

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