Homer Elihu Royce

Homer Elihu Royce ( born June 14, 1819 in Berkshire, Vermont, † April 24, 1891 in St. Albans, Vermont) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1857 and 1861 he represented the third electoral district of the state of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Homer Royce, nephew of Governor Stephen Royce, attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began in 1844 to work in East Berkshire in his new profession. Politically, he was a member of the Whigs. In 1847 he was a delegate to the national convention, at the Zachary Taylor was nominated as a presidential candidate. From 1846 to 1847 was Royce deputy in the House of Representatives from Vermont. In 1848 he worked as a lawyer. From 1849 to 1851, and 1861 and 1868 he was a member of the Senate from Vermont.

After the dissolution of the Whig Party in the 1850s, Royce was a member of the Republican Party, founded in 1854. In 1856, he was as their candidate in the third district of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Alvah Sabin on March 4, 1857. After a re-election in 1858 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1861 two legislative sessions. In this time of the exit of the deputies from the southern states and the heated debate in the run-up to the Civil War fell. In 1860 Royce opted not to run again.

After his time in Congress, he was in the years 1861 and 1868 again a member of the Senate from Vermont. In 1870, he was an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of his State; in 1882 he took over as Chief Justice presided. This office he held until his resignation in 1890. Royce Homer died in April 1891. He was married since 1851 with Mary T. Edmunds, with whom he had three children.