Horace F. Page

Horace Francis Page (* October 20, 1833 in Medina, Orleans County, New York, † August 23 1890 in San Francisco, California ) was an American politician. Between 1873 and 1883 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Horace Page attended the common schools and Millville Academy. Then he taught until 1854 in LaPorte County in Indiana as a teacher. He then moved to California, where he got near Colfax in the Sägemühlegeschäft. He later moved to Placerville, where he was stable owners. He also went into the postal business. Moreover, he was also involved in mining. After studying law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In 1869 he ran unsuccessfully for the Senate from California. Page was also a major in the state militia.

In the congressional elections of 1872 he was in the second electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Aaron Augustus Sargent on March 4, 1873. After four elections he could pass in Congress until March 3, 1883 five legislative sessions. Since 1881 he was Chairman of the Trade Committee. In 1882 he was not re-elected. In June 1884 Page was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago. Otherwise, he practiced in the federal capital Washington as a lawyer. He died on August 23, 1890 in San Francisco and was buried in Oakland.