Elisha Embree

Elisha Embree ( born September 28, 1801 Lincoln County, Kentucky, † February 28, 1863 in Princeton, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1847 and 1849 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1811 Elisha Embree came with his father in the later Gibson County, Indiana Territory, where he received a limited education. He then worked in agriculture. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1836 admitted to the bar he began in Princeton to work in his new profession. Between 1835 and 1845 he served as a judge in the fourth judicial district of Indiana.

Politically, Embree member of the Whig party. He refused in 1849 a possible nomination of his party for the gubernatorial elections from. Instead, he was in the congressional elections of 1846 in the first electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Robert Dale Owen on March 4, 1847. Since he has not been confirmed in 1848, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1849. This was marked by the events of the Mexican-American War.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Elisha Embree again practiced as a lawyer. He also worked again in agriculture. He died on 28 February 1863 in Princeton.

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