John Joseph Seerley

John Joseph Seerley (* March 13, 1852 in Toulon, Stark County, Illinois, † February 23, 1931 in Burlington, Iowa ) was an American politician. Between 1891 and 1893 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1854, John Seerley came with his parents to Iowa. The family settled on a farm in Keokuk County, where the boy attended the public schools. Then he studied until 1875 at the University of Iowa. In 1876 he worked as a teacher at the high school in Iowa City. After a subsequent law degree, which he also graduated from the University of Iowa, and its made ​​in 1877 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Burlington. Between 1885 and 1890 he was a trial lawyer of the city of Burlington.

Seerley was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1888 he ran unsuccessfully for the first time against Republican John Gear for a seat in Congress. Two years later he was against Gear in the first electoral district of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen as a replacement for this on March 4, 1891. But as he again lost to Gear already in the next elections in 1892, Seerley was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1893.

Between 1893 and 1895 Seerley was another lawyer for the city of Burlington. Otherwise, he again worked as a lawyer. He also went into the banking business and engaged in agriculture. In 1920 Seerley was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco. He died in February 1931 in Burlington, and was also buried there.