Edward W. McGaughey

Edward Wilson McGaughey (* January 16, 1817 at Greencastle, Indiana; † August 6, 1852 in San Francisco, California ) was an American politician. Between 1845 and 1847, and again from 1849 to 1851, he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edward McGaughey attended the public schools of his home and was then hired as a Deputy Clerk in the management in Putnam County. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1835 admitted to the bar he began in Greencastle to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Whig Party launched a political career. In 1839 and 1840 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Indiana; between December 1842 and February 1843, he was a member of the State Senate.

1842 candidate McGaughey still unsuccessfully for Congress. In the 1844 elections, he was then but in the seventh election district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Joseph Wright on March 4, 1845. Since he lost in 1846 against Richard W. Thompson, he was able to complete only a legislative sessions in Congress until March 3, 1847. This was determined by the events of the Mexican-American War. After his retirement from the temporal between Congress, he practiced as a lawyer in Rockville. In the 1848 elections McGaughey made ​​the re-entry into the U.S. House of Representatives, where he replaced Thompson again on March 4, 1849. Until March 3, 1851, he could spend another term in Congress. In 1850 he was not re-elected.

In 1849 Edward McGaughey was appointed by President Zachary Taylor appointed governor of Minnesota Territory. But this office he had to cancel, because the U.S. Senate refused to vote. In 1852 he moved to California, where he died in San Francisco on August 6.