John Andrew Hiestand

John Andrew Hiestand ( born October 2, 1824 in East Donegal, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, † 13 December in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1890 ) was an American politician. Between 1885 and 1889 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Hiestand attended the public schools of his home, a school in Marietta and the Pennsylvania College in Gettysburg. After a subsequent law degree in 1849 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Lancaster to work in this profession. Politically, he was a member of the Whig party. In the years 1852, 1853 and 1856, he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. In 1858 he gave up his profession. Instead, he went into the newspaper business and became a partner in the Lancaster Examiner newspaper. After the dissolution of the Whigs, Hiestand, joined the Republican Party, founded in 1854. In 1860 he was a member of the Senate of Pennsylvania; In 1868, he ran unsuccessfully for Congress yet. Between 1871 and 1879 he held the post of Naval Officer at the port of Philadelphia.

In the congressional elections of 1884 Hiestand was the ninth constituency of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Mr. Abraham Smith on March 4, 1885. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1889 two legislative sessions. In 1888 he was not re-elected. John Hiestand died on 13 December 1890 in Lancaster and was buried in Marietta.