John H. Camp

John Henry Camp ( born April 4, 1840 in Ithaca, New York, † October 12, 1892 in Lyons, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1877 and 1883 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Henry Camp was born about six years before the outbreak of the Mexican-American War in Tompkins County. He attended community schools. In 1860 he graduated from the Albany Law School. After receiving his license to practice law in the same year he began to practice in Lyons. He worked in 1863 as Clerk on Guardianship and Probate. Between 1867 and 1870 he was a prosecutor ( prosecuting attorney ) in Wayne County. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1876 for the 45th Congress camp was in the 26th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Clinton D. MacDougall on March 4, 1877. He was re-elected twice in a row. Since he gave up a re-election bid in 1882, he retired after March 3, 1883 from the Congress.

After his conference time he went to Lyons returned to his work as a lawyer after, where he died on 12 October 1892. His body was then buried in the Grove Cemetery in Trumansburg.