Herman Stump

Herman Stump ( born August 8, 1837, Harford County, Maryland, † January 9, 1917 in Bel Air, Maryland ) was an American politician. Between 1889 and 1893 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Herman Stump enjoyed a good basic education. After a subsequent law degree in 1856 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Bel Air to work in this profession. In addition, he worked in agriculture. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In 1878 he was elected to the Senate of Maryland, which he was president in 1880. In 1879, he led the regional Democratic convention in Maryland.

In the congressional elections of 1888 Stump was the second electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Frank Thomas Shaw on March 4, 1889. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1893 two legislative sessions. In 1892 he abandoned a bid again. Between 1893 and 1897 led Stump as Superintendent of Immigration, the Federal Immigration Department. He then practiced as a lawyer again in Bel Air Herman Stump died on January 9, 1917 in his residence near Bel Air