Horace G. Snover

Horace Greeley Snover ( born September 21, 1847 in Romeo, Macomb County, Michigan, † July 21, 1924 in Port Huron, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1895 and 1899 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Horace Snover attended the common schools and the Dickenson Institute in Romeo. Then he studied until 1869 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. After a subsequent law degree from the same university and its made ​​in 1871 admitted to the bar he began in Wichita (Kansas) to work in his new profession. In 1873 he moved to Romeo and 1874 in Port Austin, Michigan. In both cities, Snover practiced as a lawyer. He was also active in the banking industry. For two years he had the supervision of the public schools in Port Austin. Between 1881 and 1885 he was restructuring judge in Huron County.

Politically, Snover member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1894 he was in the seventh constituency of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Justin Rice Whiting on March 4, 1895. After a re-election in 1896, he could remain until March 3, 1897 Congress. In this time of the Spanish-American War was from 1898. At that time, the Philippines and Hawaii came under American administration.

In 1898 Horace Snover opted not to run again. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives, he again withdrew from politics. He spent his last years in Port Huron, where he died on 21 June 1924.