John Alexander Ahl

John Alexander Ahl ( born August 16, 1813 in Strasburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, † April 25, 1882 in Newville, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1857 and 1859 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1825, John Ahl came with his parents to Newville. He attended the public schools of his respective home and taught himself afterwards for some time as a teacher. After a subsequent medical studies at the University of Maryland in Baltimore and his 1852 was admitted as a doctor, he started up in 1856 in Centerville to practice in this profession. He then worked in Newville in the real estate industry and in the manufacture of paper. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party. In June 1856 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in part in Cincinnati, was nominated for the James Buchanan as their presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1856 Ahl was in the 16th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican Lemuel Todd on March 4, 1857. Since he resigned in 1858 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1859. This was marked by the events leading up to the Civil War.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, John Ahl operated again in papermaking. He also ran a molten iron in Antietam (Maryland). Ahl also worked as a doctor for the state militia and was involved in the construction of the railway company Harrisburg & Potomac Railroad. He died on April 25, 1882 in Newville, where he was also buried.