Horatio Bisbee, Jr.
Horatio Bisbee, Jr. ( born May 1, 1839 in Canton, Oxford County, Maine, † March 27, 1916 in Dixfield, Maine ) was an American politician. Between 1877 and 1885 he represented several times the state of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
Horatio Bisbee attended the public schools of his home and then the Tufts College in Medford ( Massachusetts). Between 1861 and 1863 he took as an officer in the army of the Union part in the civil war. He brought it up to colonel. In 1863 he moved to Illinois. After studying law and its made in 1864 admitted to the bar he began in 1865 in Jacksonville (Florida ) to work in his new profession. Between 1869 and 1873 he was a federal prosecutor for the northern part of Florida. For a short time he also served as Attorney General of that State. Politically, Bisbee was a member of the Republican Party.
In the congressional elections of 1876 he was the first electoral district of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William J. Purman on March 4, 1877. The election result but was challenged by his Democratic rival candidate Jesse Johnson Finley. After this appeal was upheld, he had his mandate on February 20, 1879, two weeks before the end of the term, assign to Finley.
In 1878, Bisbee was a candidate in the second district of Florida unsuccessfully against the Democrats Noble A. Hull. This time put Bisbee against the election results contradict a. This was met on 22 January 1881. So that he could finish the final weeks of the current term in Congress. In the congressional elections of 1880 Bisbee was defeated in the second constituency his old rival Jesse Finley. Bisbee also laid against this outcome is a contradiction, and could, after he had gotten right in Congress to take over the mandate on June 1, 1882. After a re-election he remained until March 3, 1885 U.S. House of Representatives. In 1884, he was not confirmed.
After retiring from Congress to Horatio Bisbee withdrew from politics. In the following years he practiced as a lawyer again. He died on March 27, 1916 in Dixfield.