Evan E. Settle

Evan Evans Settle ( born December 1, 1848 in Frankfort, Kentucky, † November 16, 1899 in Owenton, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1897 and 1899 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Evan Settle attended the public schools of his home and then the Louisville High School. After a subsequent law degree in 1870 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Owenton to work in this profession. Between 1878 and 1887 he was several times prosecutor in the local Owen County. Politically, Settle joined the Democratic Party. Between 1887 and 1890 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Kentucky. In June 1888 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in St. Louis, was nominated to the President Grover Cleveland for a second term.

In the congressional elections of 1896 Settle was in the seventh election district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William C. Owens on March 4, 1897. After a re-election in 1898, he could remain until his death on 16 November 1899 at the Congress. In this time of the Spanish-American War was.