John Allen Sterling

John Allen Sterling ( * February 1, 1857 in Le Roy, McLean County, Illinois, † October 17, 1918 in Pontiac, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1903 and 1918 he represented two times the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Sterling was the younger brother of U.S. Senator Thomas Sterling (1851-1930) of South Dakota. He attended the public schools of his native land and from then until 1881, the Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington. After that, he was between 1881 and 1883 school board in Lexington. After studying law and his 1884 was admitted to the bar he began in Bloomington to work in this profession. From 1892 to 1896 he was a prosecutor in McLean County. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In the years 1896-1898 he was a member of the State Board of his party.

In the congressional elections of 1902, Sterling was in the 17th electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Ben F. Caldwell on March 4, 1903. After four elections he could pass in Congress until March 3, 1913 five legislative sessions. In 1912 he was one of the congressmen who were entrusted with the implementation of a impeachment of the Federal Judge Robert Wodrow Archbald. In the same year, Sterling was defeated in the congressional elections the Democrats Louis Fitzhenry.

In the 1914 elections, he was re-elected in the 17th district of his state in Congress, where he replaced 1915 Fitzhenry again on March 4. After a re-election, he could remain until his death in the U.S. House of Representatives. In this time of American entry into the First World War fell. John Sterling died on October 17, 1918 in a car crash near Pontiac. He was buried in Bloomington.