John Avery (politician)

John Avery (* February 29, 1824 in Watertown, Jefferson County, New York, † January 21, 1914 in Greenville, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1893 and 1897 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1836, John Avery moved with his parents in the Michigan Territory, where he attended the public schools. He then studied for two years at the Grass Lake Academy in Jackson medicine. This study he continued until 1850 at the Cleveland Medical College. After qualifying as a doctor he started in Ionia to work in his new profession. Around the year 1852 he moved his residence and his practice according to Otsego. During the civil war was Avery military doctor in the army of the Union. Amongst others he belonged to the troops of General William T. Sherman, who were advancing across in 1864 by the Southern states to the coast. After the war he settled in Greenville, where he continued to practice as a doctor. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party.

1869 and 1870 was Avery deputy in the House of Representatives from Michigan. In the 1880s, he was one of the Health Committee of that State. In the congressional elections of 1892 he was in the eleventh electoral district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded Samuel M. Stephenson took on 4 March 1893 the moved to the newly created twelfth district. After a re-election in 1894 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1897 two legislative sessions.

Avery waived in 1896, another Congress candidate. In the following years he practiced as a doctor again. He died on January 21, 1914 at the age of almost 90 years in Greenville.

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