John H. Burleigh

John Holmes Burleigh ( born October 9, 1822 in South Berwick, York County, Maine; † December 5, 1877 ) was an American politician. Between 1873 and 1877 he represented the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Burleigh was a son of William Burleigh, who had represented 1823-1827 the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives. The younger Burleigh attended the public schools of his home and then went as a sailor at sea. Between 1846 and 1853 he was captain of a Ṻberseeschiffes. Then he settled in his native South Berwick, where he was active in the wool processing. He also went there one into banking. Politically, Burleigh member of the Republican Party. In the years 1862, 1864, 1866 and 1872, he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Maine. In 1864 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention, was nominated to the President Abraham Lincoln for re-election.

In the congressional elections of 1872 Burleigh was the first electoral district of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1873, the successor of John Lynch. After a re-election in 1874 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1877 two legislative sessions. In 1876, he was not nominated by his party for another term.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives to Burleigh again devoted his earlier activities. He died in December 1877 a few months after his resignation from the Congress.