George Helm Yeaman

George Helm Yeaman (* November 1, 1829 in Hardin County, Kentucky, † February 23, 1908 in Jersey City, New Jersey) was an American politician. Between 1862 and 1865 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives. From 1865 to 1870 he was an American ambassador to Denmark.

Career

George Yeaman attended elementary school and then studied law. After his 1852 was admitted to the bar he began in Owensboro to work in this profession. In 1854 he became a judge in Daviess County. In 1861 he was elected as a Unionist in the House of Representatives from Kentucky. Following the resignation of Mr James Jackson Streshly Yeaman was in the second electoral district of Kentucky as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 1 December 1862. By March 3, 1863 Yeaman ended the legislative session of his predecessor. Then he could spend in Congress after a re-election until March 3, 1865 for a full term. This was marked by the events of the Civil War.

In the congressional elections of 1864 Yeaman lost against Burwell C. Ritter of the Democratic Party. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives, he was appointed American ambassador to Denmark, where he followed Samuel Jordan Kirkwood. This post he held until 1870. Upon his return to the United States, he settled in New York City. There he held at Columbia College legal lectures. It was also Yeaman President of the Medico - Legal Society of New York. He died on February 23, 1908 in Jersey City.

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