John Critcher

John Critcher (* March 11, 1820 in Oak Grove, Westmoreland County, Virginia; † September 27, 1901 in Alexandria, Virginia ) was an American politician. Between 1871 and 1873 he represented the state of Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Critcher first attended the Brent's Preparatory School and then studied until 1839 at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He then continued his studies in France. After studying law and his 1842 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Westmoreland County in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In 1861 he sat in the Senate of Virginia. In the same year he was a delegate at the meeting, seceded from the Union on the Virginia. During the Civil War was Critcher lieutenant colonel in the army of the Confederacy. After the war he became a judge in the eighth judicial district of his state. But this office he had to give up because it was not allowed under a congressional decision that a former soldier of the Confederate States exercised a judicial office.

In the congressional elections of 1870 Critcher was the first electoral district of Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Richard S. Ayer on March 4, 1871. Since he resigned in 1872 to run again, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1873. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives John Critcher again practiced as a lawyer. Between 1874 and 1877 he was again in the Senate of Virginia. He died on 27 September 1901 in Alexandria.