Jesse Lee Hartman

Jesse Lee Hartman ( born June 18, 1853 in Cottage, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, † February 17, 1930 in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1911 and 1913 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Jesse Hartman attended both public and private schools of his home and the Hollidaysburg Seminary. Between 1872 and 1878 he worked as a store clerk in Hollidaysburg. From 1878 to 1891 he was managing director of a blast furnace in McKees Gap. Then he returned to Hollidaysburg. From 1891 to 1900 he worked in the local Blair County Prothonotary as. He was also involved in the degradation and shipping of ganister, a stone material that is used for the production of blast furnaces. Between 1898 and 1930 he was president of the company Hollidaysburg Trust Co. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In the years 1908, 1924 and 1928, he participated as a delegate to the respective Republican National Conventions, to which William Howard Taft, Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover were finally nominated as a presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1910, Hartman was in the 19th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the meantime resigned John Merriman Reynolds on March 4, 1911. Since he has not been confirmed in 1912, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1913. After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Jesse Hartman took his previous activities on again. In 1914 he applied unsuccessfully to return to Congress. He died on February 17, 1930 in Hollidaysburg, where he was also buried.