John Brisbin

John Brisbin ( born July 13, 1818 in Sherburne, Chenango County, New York, † February 3, 1880 in Newark, New Jersey ) was an American politician. In 1851 he represented for a few weeks the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

According to his own education John Brisbin taught himself for some time as a teacher. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he started working in the year 1843 in Tunkhannock in this new profession. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

After the death of Mr Chester Pierce Butler Brisbin was at the due election for the eleventh seat of Pennsylvania as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 13 January 1851. By 3 March the same year, he was able to complete the final weeks of the current term in Congress. After that he had the mandate to Henry Mills Fuller cede, who won in November 1850, the regular congressional elections.

From 1863 to 1867 John Brisbin served as president of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. After that he was still on the board and consultants such railway company. He died on February 3, 1880 in Newark.