Francis B. Posey

Francis Blackburn Posey ( born April 28, 1848 in Petersburg, Pike County, Indiana, † October 31, 1915 in Rockport, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between January and March 1889, he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Francis Posey attended the common schools and the Blythewood Academy. He then studied at the Indiana Asbury University, now DePauw University in Greencastle. After a subsequent law degree from Indiana University in Bloomington and its made ​​in 1869 admitted to the bar he began in St. Petersburg to work in his new profession.

Politically, Posey member of the Republican Party. In 1884 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, was nominated for the James G. Blaine as their presidential candidate. In 1888 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress. Following the resignation of Mr Alvin Peterson Hovey he was then at the due election for the first seat of Indiana as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 29 January 1889. By 3 March of the same year he finished there ongoing Leguislaturperiode.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Posey again practiced as a lawyer. Between 1903 and 1913 he led the Port Authority in Evansville. He died on 31 October 1915 in Rockport and was buried in St. Petersburg.