John Cessna

John Cessna ( born June 29, 1821 Bedford County, Pennsylvania, † December 13, 1893 in Bedford, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1869 and 1871, and again from 1873 to 1875, he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Cessna attended the public schools of his home and then the Hall 's Military Academy in Bedford. In 1842 he graduated from Marshall College in Mercersburg. After that, he worked for some time as a teacher. After studying law and his 1845 was admitted as a lawyer, he started working in Bedford in this profession. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the years 1850, 1851, 1862 and 1863, he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, which he was president in 1850 and 1863. In June 1856 Cessna was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Cincinnati in part, was nominated for the James Buchanan as their presidential candidate. Four years later, he was also a delegate to the party two days of the Democrats in Charleston or Baltimore. In 1863, he joined the Republican Party; two years later he was chairman of the regional convention in Pennsylvania. Also in 1865 he was elected state chairman of his party. In the years 1868, 1876 and 1880 he was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions relevant, on which were Ulysses S. Grant and Rutherford B. Hayes and James A. Garfield nominated as a presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1868 Cessna was as a Republican in the 16th Election District of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Henry Koontz on March 4, 1869. Since he Benjamin Franklin Meyers defeated in 1870, he was initially able to do only one term in Congress until March 3, 1871. In 1872, he made his return to the Congress, where he replaced Meyers again on March 4, 1873, until March 3, 1875 was able to spend a further term of office. In 1874 he gave up another candidacy.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives John Cessna practiced as a lawyer again. In 1892 he was again a deputy in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. He died on 13 December 1893 in Bedford, where he was also buried.