John Ganson

John Ganson ( born January 1, 1818 in Le Roy, Genesee County, New York, † September 28, 1874 in Buffalo, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1863 and 1865 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Ganson attended the common schools and the Le Roy Academy. In 1839 he graduated from the Harvard University. After a subsequent law degree in 1846 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in Canandaigua in this profession. In the same year he transferred his residence and his law firm to Buffalo. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party. In the years 1862 and 1863 he sat in the Senate from New York.

In the congressional elections of 1862 Ganson was in the 30th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican Augustus Frank on March 4, 1863. Since he resigned in 1864 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1865. This was marked by the events of the Civil War.

In August 1864 Ganson participated in Chicago as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. He was also director of a railroad company. He died on 28 September 1874 in Buffalo.