Edwin W. Keightley

Edwin William Keightley (* August 7, 1843 at Scott, LaGrange County, Indiana; † May 4, 1926 in Constantine, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1877 and 1879 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edwin Keightley, whose parents had come from England to the United States, attended the common schools and the Lagrange Academy and Valparaiso Collegiate Institute. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and its made ​​in 1865 admitted to the bar he began in White Pigeon to work in his new profession. In the years 1873 and 1874 he was Staatsanawalt in the local St. Joseph County. Thereafter, he served in the years 1876 and 1877 as a judge in the 15th Judicial District of Michigan.

Politically, Keightley member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1876 he was in the fourth electoral district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Allen Potter on March 4, 1877. Until March 3, 1879, he was able to complete a term in Congress. Between 1879 and 1885, Keightley was as third auditor engaged in the revision of the U.S. Treasury. He then worked in Chicago as a lawyer. In 1899 he moved to Constantine, where he also worked in agriculture. There Edwin Keightley died on 4 May 1926. He was married to Mary Mitchell.

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