John L. MacDonald

John Lewis MacDonald ( born February 22, 1838 in Glasgow, United Kingdom, † July 13, 1903 in Kansas City, Missouri ) was an American politician. Between 1887 and 1889 he represented the state of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Even in his youth was the Scot John MacDonald with his parents to Nova Scotia in Canada. In 1847 the family moved on to Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. After another move in 1855 they arrived in the Scott County in Minnesota. After studying law and its made ​​in 1859 admitted to the bar he began in Belle Plaine to work in his new profession. In the years 1860 and 1861 MacDonald was probate judge in Scott County. During the Civil War he was engaged in a recruiting office, where soldiers were recruited for the Union Army. In 1863 and 1864 he was also district attorney in Scott County; 1865 to 1866, he served as school board in this district.

Politically, MacDonald was a member of the Democratic Party. From 1869 to 1870 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Minnesota. After that, he was in 1871, and again 1873-1876 to the State Senate. In 1872 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of Attorney General of Minnesota. In 1876 he was elected mayor of Shakopee. Between 1876 and 1886 he was a judge in the eighth judicial district of his state.

In the congressional elections of 1886, MacDonald was in the third electoral district of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Horace B. Strait on March 4, 1887. As he said Republicans Darwin Hall defeated in the elections of 1888, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1889. After the end of his time in the House of Representatives in Saint Paul MacDonald practiced as a lawyer. In 1898 he moved to Kansas City in Missouri, where he also worked as a lawyer. There he died on July 13, 1903, the consequences of the injuries he had sustained in a tram accident.