John C. Chaney

John Crawford Chaney (* February 1, 1853 in New Lisbon, Ohio, † April 26, 1940 in Sullivan, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1905 and 1909 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1854, John Chaney still came as an infant with his parents in the Allen County in Indiana. Later, the family settled near Fort Wayne, where he attended the public schools. In 1874 he graduated from the Ascension Seminary in Farmersburg. Later he also visited the Commercial College in Terre Haute. After that, he was first employed in the teaching profession as a teacher and then for five years as a school board.

After studying law at the University of Cincinnati and its made ​​in 1883 admitted to the bar he began in Sullivan to work in his new profession. Politically, Chaney member of the Republican Party. Between 1889 and 1893 he worked for the U.S. Justizminierium. In the congressional elections of 1904 he was in the second electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Robert W. Miers on March 4, 1905. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1909 two legislative sessions. In 1908, he was not re-elected.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives John Chaney practiced as a lawyer again. Politically, he is no more have appeared. He died on April 26, 1940 in Sullivan, where he was also buried.