George Washington Julian

George Washington Julian ( born May 5, 1817 with the Centerville, Wayne County, Indiana; † July 7, 1899 in Indianapolis, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1849 and 1871 he represented several times the state of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Julian attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1840 admitted to the bar he began in Greenfield to work in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career. In 1845 he was elected to the House of Representatives from Indiana. At that time he was a member of the short-lived Free Soil Party. In 1848 he was a delegate to the national convention. In the congressional elections of 1848, Julian was in the fourth electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Caleb Blood Smith on March 4, 1849. Since he has not been confirmed in 1850, he was initially able to do only one term in Congress until March 3, 1851. In the presidential elections in 1852 George Julian was the vice presidential candidate of his party on the side of John P. Hale. They achieved a vote share of 4.9 percent, but remained without electors in the Electoral College.

After the dissolution of his party Julian member of the Republican Party, founded in 1854, the first Republican National Convention was he visited in 1856 as a delegate. There, John C. Frémont was nominated as the first presidential candidate. In the congressional elections of 1860 Julian was elected to succeed David Kilgore in the fifth district of his state again in the Congress. After four re- elections, he could spend up to March 3, 1871, five other legislatures in the U.S. House of Representatives. Since 1869 he represented there again the fourth constituency. This period was marked by the events of the civil war and its consequences. Since 1865, the conflict between Julian's Republican Party and President Andrew Johnson weighed on the work of the Congress. Between 1863 and 1871 George Julian was chairman of the Committee for the administration of public property. From 1865 to 1867 he also headed the Committee to monitor the expenditure of the Navy Department.

Between 1885 and 1889 led Julian land surveying in New Mexico Territory. He then returned to Indiana, where he located in Irvington, a suburb of Indianapolis, settled. There he focused on literary matters. George Julian died on July 7, 1899 in Indianapolis.