John Otis (Maine)

John Otis ( born August 3, 1801 in Leeds, Androscoggin County, Massachusetts, † October 17, 1856 in Hallowell, Maine ) was an American politician. Between 1849 and 1851 he represented the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Life

John Otis was born 1801 in Leeds, which at that time was still part of Massachusetts, and is since 1820 part of Maine. He attended the public schools of his native land and from then until 1823, Bowdoin College in Brunswick. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1826 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Hallowell. Politically, he was a member of the Whig party. In 1841 he was a deputy in the House of Representatives from Maine. In 1842 he was member of a commission that established the North-East border of the United States. In the same year he sat in the Senate of Maine. Between 1846 and 1847, Otis was again a deputy in the House of Representatives of the State.

1848 Otis was in the third electoral district of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Hiram Belcher on March 4, 1849. Until March 3, 1851, he was able to complete a term in Congress. During this time, the state of California was admitted to the Union. Besides, it already at this time were significant tensions within the Congress over the issue of slavery and the admission of new states from the viewpoint of whether there slavery should be allowed or prohibited.

After the end of his time in the House of Representatives, John Otis retired from politics. He died on October 17, 1856 in Hallowell, and was also buried there.