John A. Kasson

John Adam Kasson ( born January 11, 1822 in Charlotte, Chittenden County, Vermont, † May 18 1910 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1863 and 1884 he represented several times the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was also United States Ambassador to Germany and Austria - Hungary.

Career

John Kasson attended the public schools of his home. Then he studied until 1842 at the University of Vermont in Burlington. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began to practice in his new job in St. Louis ( Missouri). In 1857 he moved his residence and his law firm to Des Moines, Iowa. Politically, Kasson member of the Republican Party, founded in 1854. In 1860 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, was nominated on the Abraham Lincoln as a presidential candidate. Between 1861 and 1862 he was Deputy Postmaster General ( First Assistant Postmaster General ). In 1863, he was an American representative at an international postal congress in Paris.

1862 Kasson was elected in the then newly created fifth electoral district of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he met on March 4, 1863 to his new mandate. After a re-election in 1964 he was able to represent that constituency until March 3, 1867 Congress. He was chairman of the Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures. This time was determined by the events of the Civil War and the beginning of Reconstruction. At that time the 13th Amendment was ratified, by which slavery was abolished. In 1866 Kasson was not nominated by his party for re-election.

In 1867 was John Kasson American negotiators in post convention negotiations with the European countries. Between 1868 and 1872 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Iowa. In the congressional elections of 1872 he was elected to the Congress in the newly created also the seventh district. After a re-election in 1874 he was able to spend between 4 March 1873, the March 3, 1877 two other legislatures in the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1876 he gave up another candidacy.

Between 1877 and 1881 Kasson was the successor of Edward F. Beale, U.S. Ambassador in Vienna, which was then the capital of the dual monarchy of Austria - Hungary. In 1880 he was elected for the third time in the U.S. House of Representatives. There he took over from the March 4, 1881 Edward H. Gillette, who had represented the seventh constituency of Iowa since 1879. In 1882 Kasson was confirmed. He resigned on July 13, 1884 ahead of his mandate back, because he had been appointed ambassador to Germany. This office he held for one year. In 1885, he was an American envoy at an international conference on the Congo in Berlin. In 1889 he held the same function at the Berlin Samoa Conference. In 1897, he was an American negotiator in some international treaties; 1898 Kasson belonged to a mixed British-American Commission, which negotiated differences with Canada.

John Kasson, died on May 18, 1910 in the German capital Washington and was buried in Des Moines.