George A. Bicknell

George Augustus Bicknell ( born February 6, 1815 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † April 11, 1891 in New Albany, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1877 and 1881 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Bicknell studied until 1831 at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. After a subsequent law degree, which he partially completed at Yale University, and his 1836 was admitted to the bar he began to work in New York City in this profession. In 1846 he moved to Lexington in Indiana. In 1848 he was prosecutor in the local Scott County; In 1850, he was a prosecutor at the District Court. Since 1851, Bicknell was headquartered in New Albany. From 1852 to 1876 he was a judge in the second judicial district of Indiana. In the years 1861-1870 he taught at the same time nor the Law Faculty at Indiana University.

Politically Bicknell was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1876 he was in the third electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Nathan T. Carr on March 4, 1877. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1881 two legislative sessions. In 1880, he was not nominated by his party for re-election.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Bicknell worked 1881-1885 as a vocation Commissioner ( Commissioner of Appeals ) for the Supreme Court of Indiana. Then he practiced until 1889 again as a lawyer. Since 1889 until his death he served as Judge of the Circuit Court of Indiana. George Bicknell died on April 11, 1891 in New Albany, where he was also buried.