John Law (representative)

John Law ( born October 28, 1796 in New London, Connecticut; † October 7, 1873 in Evansville, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1861 and 1865 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Law was a son of Lyman Law (1770-1840) and a grandson of Richard Law (1733-1806) and Amasa Learned (1750-1825), who were all members of Congress and delegates to the Continental Congress. After a good primary education he studied until 1814 at Yale College. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1817 admitted to the bar he began in Vincennes (Indiana) to work in his new profession. In the years 1818-1820 he worked as a prosecutor. At the same time he began a political career.

From 1824 to 1825 was deputy Law in the House of Representatives from Indiana. He then worked again until 1828 as a prosecutor. In the years 1830 and 1831, he acted as a judge in the Seventh Judicial District of Indiana. From 1838 to 1842 he headed the land registry office in Vincennes. By 1850, he was again acting as judges. In 1851, John moved to Evansville Law, where he became landowners. In addition, he was also active as a writer. From 1855 to 1857 he was a federal judge for land matters.

In the congressional elections of 1860 Law was a candidate of the Democratic Party in the first electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William E. Niblack March 4, 1861. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1865 two legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events of the Civil War. In 1864 he opted not to run again. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives John Law once again worked as a lawyer. He died on 7 October 1873 in Evansville and was buried in Vincennes.