John O. Whitehouse

John Osborne Whitehouse ( born July 19, 1817 in Rochester, New Hampshire; † August 24, 1881 in Poughkeepsie, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1873 and 1877 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Osborne Whitehouse was born about two and a half years after the end of the British - American War in Rochester, Strafford County and grew up there. During this time he attended community schools. In 1835 he moved to New York City. He worked there in 1839 as a clerk ( clerk ). Then he moved to the then still independent city of Brooklyn, where he pursued commercial shops and worked as a manufacturer of shoes. In 1860 he moved to Poughkeepsie in Dutchess County, where he followed his occupation as a shoe Herstellter on. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1872 for the 43rd Congress White House was in the 13th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Joseph H. Tuthill on March 4, 1873. He was re-elected once. Since he gave up for reelection in 1876, he retired after March 3, 1877 from the Congress. As a Congressman he had presided over the Committee on Reform in the Civil Service ( 44th Congress ).

After his conference time he went back to the shoe manufacturing. But he also pursued banking and was engaged in railway construction. Between 1872 and 1880 he was the owner of the Daily News. He died on August 24, 1881 in Poughkeepsie and was then buried in the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.