Herman L. Humphrey

Herman Leon Humphrey ( born March 14, 1830 in Candor, Tioga County, New York, † June 10 1902 in Hudson, Wisconsin ) was an American politician. Between 1877 and 1883 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Herman Humphrey attended the common schools and the Cortland Academy. He then worked for several years as a clerk in Ithaca. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1854 admitted to the bar he began in 1855 in Hudson (Wisconsin ) to work in his new profession. Later he became district attorney in St. Croix County. In the years 1860 and 1861 he was there District Judge.

Politically, Humphrey member of the Republican Party. From 1862 to 1863 he sat in the Senate of Wisconsin; then he served for a year as Mayor of Hudson. Between 1866 and 1876 he was a judge in the eighth judicial district of Wisconsin. In the congressional elections of 1876 Humphrey was the seventh constituency of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Jeremiah McLain Rusk on March 4, 1877. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1883 three legislative periods.

For the elections of 1882 Humphrey was not re-nominated by his party. In the following years he worked again as a lawyer. In 1887 he was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly. Herman Humphrey died on 10 June 1902 in Hudson.