John Blaisdell Corliss

John Blaisdell Corliss ( born June 7, 1851 in Richford, Franklin County, Vermont, † December 24, 1929 in Detroit, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1895 and 1903 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Corliss attended the common schools and the Fairfax Preparatory School. Then he studied until 1871 at the Vermont Methodist University in Montpelier. After a subsequent study law at Columbian College, now George Washington University, in Washington DC and its made ​​in 1875 admitted to the bar he began in Detroit to work in his new profession. Between 1882 and 1886 he was there urban litigator. During this time he designed the first statutes of this town, which was adopted in 1884 in the City Council. John Corliss was also president of the Michigan Lubricator Co. and the Shipman Koal Company of Pennsylvania.

Politically, Corliss member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1894, he was elected in the first district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Levi T. Griffin on March 4, 1895. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1903 four legislative sessions. In this time of the Spanish-American War was. At that time, the Philippines and Hawaii came under American administration. Since 1897 Corliss was chairman of the Committee for the congressional and presidential elections.

In the elections of 1902 Corliss defeated Democrat Alfred Lucking. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives, he worked in Detroit as a lawyer in the law firm Corliss, Leete & Moody. In 1920 he was elected to the board of the American Bar Association. John Corliss died on December 24, 1929 in Detroit. He was married since 1877 to the late 1886 Elizabeth N. Danford, with whom he had four children.