Hiram McCullough

Hiram McCullough ( born September 26, 1813 near Elkton, Cecil County, Maryland, † March 4, 1885 ) was an American politician. Between 1865 and 1869 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Hiram McCullough attended the Elkton Academy. After a subsequent law degree in 1837 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Elkton to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. From 1845 to 1851 he sat in the Senate of Maryland. In 1850 he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. House of Representatives. In the same year he was a member of a commission to revise the laws of the state of Maryland.

In the congressional elections of 1864 McCullough was the first electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Creswell on March 4, 1865. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1869 two legislative sessions. In this time, the end of the Civil War fell. Since 1865 the work of the Congress was overshadowed by the tensions between the Republican Party and President Andrew Johnson, which culminated in a narrowly failed impeachment. In the years 1865 and 1868 the 13th and the 14th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives McCullough practiced as a lawyer again. He became the legal adviser to the Railway Company Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad. In the years 1864 and 1868 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions relevant. He was also from 1880 to 1881 Member and 1880 President of the Lower House of Maryland. He died on March 4, 1885 in Elkton, where he was also buried.