Ira Allen Eastman
Ira Allen Eastman ( born January 1, 1809 in Gilmanton, Belknap County, New Hampshire, † March 21, 1881 in Manchester, New Hampshire ) was an American politician. Between 1839 and 1843 he represented the State of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
Ira Eastman was the nephew of Nehemiah Eastman (1782-1856), who was 1825-1827 congressman for the state of New Hampshire. The younger Eastman attended the public schools of his home and then to 1829 Dartmouth College in Hanover. After a subsequent study of law and its made in 1832 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Troy. There he married on February 20, 1833 Jane Quackenbush. In the spring of 1834 he returned to Gilmanton, where he also worked as a lawyer. In 1835, he was an administrative clerk in the House of Representatives from New Hampshire.
Eastman was a member of the Democratic Party, founded by Andrew Jackson. Between 1836 and 1838 he was a member of the House of Representatives from New Hampshire and since 1837 its president. From 1836 to 1839 he worked as an administrative clerk at a probate court. In the congressional elections of 1838, which were held all across the state, Eastman was the fourth parliamentary seat from New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1839, the successor of Samuel Cushman. After a re-election in 1840 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1843 two coherent legislative periods. Since 1841 he was chairman of the Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business. In 1842, Eastman gave up another candidacy.
After the end of his time in the House of Representatives Ira Eastman became a judge. Between 1844 and 1849 he was in this capacity at the Court of Appeal of New Hampshire. After that, he was 1849-1855 Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of his State. Between 1855 and 1859, Eastman was the presiding judge at the Superior Judical Court of New Hampshire. Since 1859 he was also curator of Dartmouth College. In 1863 he ran unsuccessfully against Joseph A. Gilmore for the office of governor of New Hampshire. In 1866, he also failed, when he applied for the U.S. Senate. Otherwise Ira Eastman worked as a lawyer. He died on 21 March 1881 in Manchester.