John Littleton Dawson

John Littleton Dawson ( born February 7, 1813 in Uniontown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, † September 18, 1870 in Springfield, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1851 and 1867 he represented two times the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Still in his early childhood, John Dawson came with his parents to Brownsville. In 1833 he graduated from the Washington College. After a subsequent law degree in 1835 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in Brownsville in this profession. In 1838 he was appointed deputy district attorney in Fayette County. From 1845 to 1848 he was United States Attorney for the Western part of the state Pennsylvania. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In the years 1844, 1848, 1860 and 1868, he participated as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions relevant. In 1848 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress yet.

In the congressional elections of 1850 Dawson was but then in the 18th Election District of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Andrew Jackson Ogle on March 4, 1851. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1855 two legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events leading up to the Civil War. Since 1853 Dawson represented as the successor of John Allison the 20th district of his state. Also since 1853, he was chairman of the Agriculture Committee.

In 1854, John Dawson renounced another candidacy. President Franklin Pierce appointed him governor of the Kansas Territory; but this appointment he refused. In the elections of 1862 Dawson was elected to Congress again in the 21st District of Pennsylvania, where he replaced James K. Moorhead on March 4, 1863. After a re-election, he could spend up to March 3, 1867 two other legislatures in the U.S. House of Representatives. In this time fell in 1865, the end of the Civil War and the ratification of the 13th Amendment. Since 1865 the work of the Congress of the tensions between the Republicans and President Andrew Johnson was charged, which culminated in a narrowly failed impeachment.

In 1866, John Dawson renounced a new Congress candidacy. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he withdrew into retirement, which he spent on his property Friendship Hill in Springfield. There he is on 18 September in 1870 died.