Eliakim Persons Walton
Eliakim Persons Walton ( born February 17, 1812 in Montpelier, Vermont, † December 19, 1890 ) was an American politician. Between 1857 and 1863 he represented the first electoral district of the state of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
Eliakim Walton attended the common schools and then served an apprenticeship in the printing trade. Although he studied law, but has never exercised a legal profession. Instead, he began a career in journalism. He was publisher of the newspaper " Walton's Vermont Register". He was also the founder and for 20 years president of the Association of the newspaper publisher of his home. After his father, who has also worked in the newspaper business, had retired in 1853 to retire, was Eliakim Walton until 1868 the sole owner of the newspaper " Watchman ". In 1853 he was elected to the House of Representatives from Vermont. Walton was also involved in the financing of railway construction in Vermont.
Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party, founded in 1854. In 1856 he was a candidate in the first district of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1857, the successor of George Tisdale Hodges. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1863 three legislative periods. There he witnessed the outbreak of the civil war and the exodus of the congressmen from the South. For the elections of 1862 he gave up another candidacy.
After the end of his time in Congress Walton went back to his journalistic interests. He remained active in politics and was a delegate to the 1864 Republican National Convention in Baltimore, on the U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was nominated for a second term. In 1870 he was a member of a meeting to revise the State Constitution of Vermont; 1875-1877 Walton sat in the State Senate. Between 1875-1887 he was also curator of the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College. From 1876 to 1890 Walton led the Vermont Historical Society. He died in December 1890 in his birthplace of Montpelier. Eliakim Walton was first married to Sarah Sophia Howes. After her death in 1880 he married in 1882 Clara Field.