Hosea Townsend

Hosea Townsend ( born June 16, 1840 in Greenwich, Huron County, Ohio; † March 4, 1909 in Ardmore, Oklahoma) was an American politician. Between 1889 and 1893 he represented the first electoral district of the state of Colorado in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After primary school Hosea Townsend attended the Western Reserve College in Cleveland. Until 1863 he took part as a lieutenant in a volunteer unit from Ohio at the American Civil War; then he had to acknowledge the military service because of an injury. After studying law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began in 1865 in Memphis ( Tennessee) to work in this profession. In 1869 he was elected to the House of Representatives from Tennessee.

1879 Townsend moved to Colorado. From 1881 he lived in the town of Silver Cliff. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1888 he was elected in the then single electoral district of Colorado, which covered the entire state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he took over from the March 4, 1889 George G. Symes. After a re-election in 1890 he was able to implement his mandate in Congress until March 3, 1893. In 1892, Townsend was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis.

After he was not nominated for the elections of the year 1892 by his party, he had to resign in March 1893 for the Congress. Between 1897 and 1907, Townsend federal judge in the southern part of the Indian Territory, which stretched in the southwestern United States on the territory of the present states of New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma. He died on March 4, 1909 in Ardmore and was buried in Norwalk (Ohio ).