John A. T. Hull
John Albert Tiffin Hull ( born May 1, 1841 in Sabina, Clinton County, Ohio; † September 26, 1928 in Clarendon, Virginia) was an American Republican politician.
Life
Hull moved in 1849 with his parents to Iowa. After school, he attended Indiana Asbury University in Greencastle, Indiana, the Iowa Wesleyan College in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, and Cincinnati Law School in Cincinnati, where he received his doctorate in the spring of 1862. After his admission to the bar he began to work in Des Moines.
In July 1862 he volunteered for the army and fought in the 23rd Regiment of Iowa Volunteer Infantry. Because of injuries, he had to resign in the rank of captain in October 1863. In 1872 he was elected Secretary of the Senate of Iowa, 1878, he was Secretary of State of Iowa (which has, among others, the task of a Returning Officer ). In 1886 he became vice governor of Iowa ( 1885 election, re-election in 1887 ) under Governor William Larrabee, which he remained until 1890.
In 1890 he was elected to the seventh congress District of Iowa in the 52nd Congress of the United States, which met in 1891. In the subsequent nine elections he was re-elected respectively and remained until 1911 in Congress. From 1895 to 1911 he was the chairman of the United States House Committee on Armed Services ( Armed Services Committee ). He was regarded as "right hand" of the controversial speaker of the House, Joseph Gurney Cannon.
In 1910 he was defeated at the internal party primaries Solomon F. Prouty, who was supported by Albert B. Cummins, the senator and former governor of Iowa. Prouty and Cummins were members of the progressive wing of the Republican party, while Hull was considered conservative (stand -patter ). The Prohibition Party had put up no candidate of their own to the primaries, so that voters were allowed to write even names on the ballot. In addition to many individual responses was John AT Hull the only one that had been written by two voters, so that he was the legitimate candidate of the Prohibition Party. Whether this Hull 's candidacy took, is not clear from the sources.
After his time as a Member Hull worked until 1916 as a lawyer again, this time in Washington.
He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. His son John Adley Hull (1874-1944) was Chief Judge Advocate 1924-1928 and 1932-1936 Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the then American Philippines.