John Logan Chipman

John Logan Chipman ( born June 5, 1830 in Detroit, Michigan; † August 17, 1893 ) was an American politician. Between 1887 and 1893 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Chipman was a grandson of Nathaniel Chipman (1752-1843), who represented 1797-1803 the state of Vermont in the U.S. Senate. The younger Chipman attended the common schools and then studied 1843-1845 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In 1846 he worked as an explorer for the active mining Montreal Mining Co. in the area of Lake Superior. In 1853 he was an administrative employee at the House of Representatives from Michigan. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1854 admitted to the bar he began in northern Michigan to work in the area of Lake Superior in his new profession. Upon his return to Detroit he was 1857-1860 legal representatives of this city.

Politically Chipman was a member of the Democratic Party. In the years 1865 and 1866 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Michigan. In 1866 he ran unsuccessfully for even the U.S. House of Representatives. Between 1867 and 1879 he represented as a lawyer, the police of the city of Detroit. From 1879 to 1887 was Chipman Judge at Superior Court in Detroit. In the congressional elections of 1886, he was the first electoral district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William C. Maybury on March 4, 1887. After three re- elections he could remain until his death on August 17, 1893 in Congress.

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