Erastus J. Turner

Erastus Johnson Turner ( born December 26, 1846 in Lockport, Erie County, Pennsylvania, † February 10, 1933 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American politician. Between 1887 and 1891 he represented the state of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Between 1859 and 1860, Erastus Turner attended college in Henry ( Illinois). In 1860 he moved to Bloomfield, Iowa. In the final phase of the civil war he was a soldier from 1864 onwards in an infantry regiment from Iowa. After the war he continued his studies from 1866 to 1866 continued at Adrian College in Michigan. After studying law and its made ​​in 1871 admitted to the bar he began in Bloomfield to work in his new profession. In 1879, Turner moved by Hoxie in Sheridan County, Kansas, where he also practiced law. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. From 1881 to 1885 was Erastus Turner MP in the House of Representatives from Kansas. He was also from 1883 to 1886 Secretary of the Railway Committee of that State.

In the congressional elections of 1886, Turner was elected as the sixth state far congressman in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he met on March 4, 1887 the successor of Lewis Hanback. After a re-election in 1888 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1891 two legislative sessions. In 1890 he abandoned a bid again. After the end of his time in Congress Turner practiced for several years as an attorney in the federal capital Washington. In 1905 he moved to Seattle ( Washington), where he also worked as a lawyer. In 1916, Erastus Turner withdrew into retirement, which he spent in Los Angeles, where he died in 1933.