Horatio C. Burchard

Horatio Chapin Burchard (* September 22, 1825 in Marshall, Oneida County, New York, † May 14, 1908 in Freeport, Illinois ) was an American politician. From 1869 to 1879 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Horatio Burchard attended both public and private schools. In 1850 he graduated from Hamilton College in Clinton. After a subsequent law degree in 1854 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Freeport to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1863 and 1866 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Illinois.

Following the resignation of Mr Elihu Benjamin Washburne, U.S. Secretary of State was for a short time, Burchard was in the overdue election for the third seat from Illinois as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on December 6, 1869. After four elections he could remain until March 3, 1879 Congress. Since 1873, he represented there as a successor of Bradford N. Stevens the fifth electoral district of his state. In 1878, he was not nominated by his party for re-election.

Between 1879 and 1885 he was the successor of Henry Linderman, the United States Mint. He then practiced as a lawyer again. He died on 14 May 1908 in Freeport.