Ginery Twichell

Ginery Twichell ( born August 26, 1811 in Athol, Worcester County, Massachusetts, † July 23, 1883 in Brookline, Massachusetts) was an American politician. Between 1867 and 1873 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Ginery Twichell attended the public schools of his home. After that he became the owner of some stagecoach lines. Since 1848 he was also active in the railroad business. In 1857 he became president of the Boston and Worcester Railroad. Politically, he joined the Republican Party. In 1864 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention, was nominated to the President Abraham Lincoln for re-election.

In the congressional elections of 1866 Twichell was the third electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Alexander H. Rice on March 4, 1867. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1873 three legislative periods. Since 1865 the work of the Congress was overshadowed by the tensions between the Republicans and President Andrew Johnson, which culminated in a narrowly failed impeachment.

In 1872, Twichell renounced a new Congress candidacy. Between 1870 (ie still in his time as a congressman ) and 1874 he was president of the railroad company Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Until 1878 he was also President of the Boston, Barre and Gardner Railroad. He died on 23 July 1883 in Brookline.