Horace Chilton

Horace Chilton (* December 29, 1853 at Tyler, Texas, USA, † June 12, 1932 in Dallas, Texas, United States) was an American politician in the U.S. state of Texas.

Biography

Early life

Horace Chilton was born as the son of George W. Chilton and his wife Ella at Tyler on December 29, 1853. First Chilton was taught by his mother in the home study until he, in 1863, visited the Charnwood Institute from the age of 10, and later completed a semester at the institution Lynnland in Glendale (Kentucky). Chilton trained as a typographer, and published since 1871 an almost weekly newspaper, which he called Tyler Sun. Later he studied law, and began practicing in Tyler.

Political career

Between 1881 and 1883 Chilton was Deputy Texas Attorney, and represented Texas in both 1888 and 1896, the Congress of Democrats. It was the Texas Governor Jim Hogg, who came up at Chilton, and asked him, after the resignation of U.S. Senator John Henninger Reagan, 1891, to take over the now vacant Senate post. So it was that Chilton moved to the U.S. Senate on June 10, 1891, and remained in that office for nine months. It was Roger Quarles Mills, ousted in a specially convened election Chilton, and on 22 March 1892 adopted the Senate post. Two years later, in 1894, Chilton was a candidate for the first time with a Wahlkampangne ​​for Senatssiz, and was born on March 4, 1894 successor to U.S. Sen. Richard Coke. This time he remained six years - the full term - in the office, and had on 3 March 1901 after losing an election, let the newly elected U.S. Senator Joseph Weldon Bailey his place.

Late life

Chilton returned to Tyler, where he began his work as a lawyer again. In the fall of 1901 he moved to Beaumont, where he became head of Governor Hogg's office on the local oil fields. 1906, according to Hogg's death, Chilton moved again to Tyler, but remained there only briefly, as it is still settling in Dallas in the same year. Here he spent the last two and a half decades, and died there on 12 June 1932. His grave is in the Oakwood Cemetery in Tyler.

Family

With his wife, Mary W. Grinnan that Chilton had married on 20 February 1877 he had five children together.