James Patton Flick

James Patton Flick ( born August 28, 1845 in Bakerstown, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, † February 25th 1929 in Bedford, Iowa ) was an American politician. Between 1889 and 1893 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1852, James Flick came with his parents in the Wapello County, Iowa. 1857 the family moved to the Taylor County on. Flick attended the public schools of his new home. Between April 1862 and September 1864, he participated as a soldier of an infantry unit from Iowa part in the civil war. From 1869 to 1870 was Flick Protokollist in the administration of Taylor County. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1870 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Bedford.

Flick was a member of the Republican Party. In the years 1878 and 1879, he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Iowa. From 1880 to 1886 he was a prosecutor in the third judicial district of Iowa. 1888 Flick was in the eighth electoral district of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Albert R. Anderson on March 4, 1889. After a re-election in 1890 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1893 two legislative sessions.

In 1892, James Flick opted not to run again. He took in Bedford back his old job as a lawyer to. Politically, he has sought no further mandate more. Flick died on 25 February 1929 in Bedford and was also buried there.

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