Henry S. Magoon

Henry Sterling Magoon ( born January 31, 1832 in Monticello, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, † March 3, 1889 in Darlington, Wisconsin ) was an American politician. Between 1875 and 1877 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Henry Magoon attended the Rock River Seminary at Mount Morris (Illinois ) and then the Western Military College at Drennon (Kentucky). After a subsequent law studies at the Montrose Law School in Frankfort and its made ​​in 1857 admitted to the bar he began in Shullsburg to work in his new profession. In the meantime, he taught at the University of Nashville in Tennessee ancient languages ​​. Since 1858 Magoon was established in Darlington, where he also practiced as a lawyer. In the same year he was also district attorney there.

Politically, Magoon member of the Republican Party. In the years 1871 and 1872 he was a member of the Senate of Wisconsin. In the congressional elections of 1874 he was in the third electoral district of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of J. Allen Barber on March 4, 1875. Since he resigned in 1876 to run again, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1877.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Henry Magoon again worked as a lawyer. He died on March 3, 1889 in Darlington.