Fernando C. Beaman

Fernando Cortez Beaman (* June 28 1814 in Chester, Windsor County, Vermont, † September 27, 1882 in Adrian, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1861 and 1871 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1819, Fernando Beaman moved with his parents to a farm in Franklin County in the state of New York. There he attended the public schools and the Malone Academy. He then worked himself for some time as a teacher. In 1836 he moved to Rochester, two years later to Manchester in Michigan. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1839 admitted to the bar he began to work in his new profession. Since 1843 he lived in Adrian. By 1850, Beaman served as district attorney in Lenawee County. He was also a legal representative of the city Adrian.

Beaman was a founding member in 1854 of the Republican Party in Michigan in the year. In 1856 he was a delegate participated in the first Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, was nominated on the John C. Frémont as a presidential candidate. In the same year he was elected mayor of Adrian. Between 1856 and 1860 Beaman estate judge was in Lenawee County.

In the congressional elections of 1860 he was in the second electoral district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Henry Waldron on March 4, 1861. After four elections he could pass in Congress until March 3, 1871 five legislative sessions. Since 1863 he represented there as successor by Bradley F. Granger the first district of his state. By 1865 the work of the Congress was shaped by the events of the Civil War. Then it came there heated debate between the Republican Party and President Andrew Johnson to the Reconstruction, which culminated in a nearly failed impeachment proceedings against the president. In 1868, Alaska came under American administration. From 1865 to 1867 Beaman was chairman of the Committee on the streets and channel expansion.

1870 renounced Beaman on another candidacy. In the following years he worked again as a lawyer in Adrian. After he was elected in 1872 and 1876 to restructuring judge in Lenawee County. After the death of U.S. Senator Zachariah Chandler Beaman was nominated as his successor. For health reasons, but he refused to accept the appeal. For the same reason he gave up a seat at his state Supreme Court. Even an offer for a job with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, he had to decline. Fernado Beaman died on September 27, 1882 in Adrian.