John Denison Baldwin

John Denison Baldwin ( born September 28, 1809 in North Stonington, New London County, Connecticut; † July 8, 1883 in Worcester, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1863 and 1869 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1816, John Baldwin moved with his parents in the Chenango County in upstate New York. In 1823 the family returned to North Stonington. He attended the public schools of his respective home and began studying law, but he broke off. Instead, he studied at Yale Divinity School theology. After his ordination in 1834 were made to the clergy of the Congregational Church he practiced this occupation until 1849 in various cities in Connecticut. Baldwin, he was an opponent of slavery and rose in 1849 in the newspaper business. As a result, he was in Hartford, Boston and Worcester out newspapers. He joined the Free Soil Party and was 1847-1852 Member of Parliament in the House of Connecticut. He then became a member of the Republican Party. Since 1859 John Baldwin lived in Worcester, where he worked until his death for the newspaper " Worcester Spy ." In May 1860 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, was nominated on the Abraham Lincoln as a presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1862 Baldwin was in the eighth election district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charles R. Train on March 4, 1863. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1869 three legislative periods. These were shaped by the events of the civil war and its consequences. Since 1865 the work of the Congress was overshadowed by the tensions between the Republicans and President Andrew Johnson, which culminated in a narrowly failed impeachment. In the years 1865 and 1868 the 13th and the 14th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified.

1868 renounced Baldwin on another Congress candidate. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he again worked in the newspaper industry. He died on 8 July 1883 in Worcester, where he was also buried.