John Edward Halsell

John Edward Halsell ( born September 11, 1826 Bowling Green, Kentucky, † December 26, 1899 in Fort Worth, Texas ) was an American politician. Between 1883 and 1887 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Halsell attended the public schools in Rich Pond. He then studied at Cumberland University in Lebanon (Tennessee). After a subsequent law degree in 1856 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started working in Bowling Green in this profession. Four years Halsell also worked as a prosecutor in Warren County. In 1870 he became a judge in the fourth judicial district of Kentucky.

Politically Halsell was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1882 he was in the third electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John W. Caldwell on March 4, 1883. After a re-election in 1884 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1887 two legislative sessions. Since 1885 he was chairman of the committee which dealt with private land claims.

In 1886 Halsell was not nominated by his party for another term. After the end of his time in the House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer first again. In the years 1888 and 1889 he was mayor of Bowling Green. He then moved to Fort Worth, Texas, where he worked as a lawyer again. There, John Halsell is on December 26, 1899 passed away. He was buried in Bowling Green.