John B. Alley

John Bassett Alley ( born January 7, 1817 in Lynn, Massachusetts, † January 19, 1896 in West Newton, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1859 and 1867 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Alley attended the public schools of his home and then made ​​an apprenticeship as a shoemaker, but he dropped out at the age of 19 years. In 1836 he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio. In the following two years he worked in the freight business on the Mississippi. He then returned to his birthplace Lynn, where he worked in the shoe industry again. In 1847 he opened a leather goods shop in Boston. At the same time he embarked on a political career. In 1850 he sat in the council of Lynn. From 1847 to 1851 Alley was a member of the senior staff of the Governor; in 1852 he was a member of the Massachusetts Senate. A year later he was a delegate at a meeting to revise the constitution of Massachusetts. He was a member of the Republican Party, founded in 1854.

In the congressional elections of 1858 Alley was in the sixth electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded by Timothy Davis on March 4, 1859. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1867, four legislative sessions. Since 1863 he represented as the successor of Samuel Hooper the fifth district of his state. From 1861 to 1865 Alley was chairman of the Postal Committee. His time as a congressman before the events, while dominated and after the Civil War. Since 1865 the work of the Congress of the tensions between the Republican Party and President Andrew Johnson was determined, which culminated in a narrowly failed impeachment.

1866 renounced Alley on another Congress candidate. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he worked for the Union Pacific Railroad. In 1886, he withdrew into retirement. He died on January 19, 1896 in West Newton.