John J. Perry

John Jasiel Perry ( born August 2, 1811 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire; † May 2, 1897 in Portland, Maine ) was an American politician. Between 1855 and 1857, and again from 1859 to 1861, he represented the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Perry moved early in 1812 with his parents to Hebron, now Oxford, Maine. There he attended the public schools and Maine Wesleyan Seminary. Later he became deputy chief of police in Oxford County. After studying law and its made ​​in 1844 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Oxford. At the same time Perry began a political career. In the years 1840, 1842 and 1843, and again later, in 1872, he was a member of the House of Representatives from Maine. In the years 1846 and 1847 Perry was a member of the State Senate. In 1854, he was an administrative employee in the state House of Representatives. Mid-1850s was a member of the so-called opposition party Perry, a short-lived party in which especially some former members of the Whig Party sought a political home.

In the congressional elections of 1854 Perry was in the second electoral district of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he met on March 4, 1855 the successor of Samuel Mayall of the Democratic Party. Rejecting a bid again in 1856, Perry was initially able to do only one term in Congress, which was overshadowed by the debate over slavery until March 3, 1857.

Meanwhile, Perry was a member of the Republican Party, founded in 1854. In 1858 he was re-elected as its candidate in the Congress. There he entered on March 4, 1859, the successor of Charles J. Gilman, who was two years earlier become Perry's successor. Since he did not run in 1860, he stayed this time until March 3, 1861 for only one term in the U.S. House of Representatives. There he witnessed the exodus of MPs from the south, who had joined the Confederacy. In the spring of 1861 Perry was a member of a commission in the federal capital Washington tried at the last minute, to prevent the outbreak of civil war. This mission, however, remained unsuccessful.

After the end of his time in the House of Representatives was John Perry worked in the newspaper business. Between 1860 and 1875 he published the newspaper " Oxford Democrat ." He was also involved in other newspapers in and outside the state of Maine. In 1872 he was again a deputy in the State House of Representatives. In 1875, Perry moved to Portland, where he continued working in the newspaper business. He is also passed in 1897.