John Sanford (1851)

John Sanford ( born January 18, 1851 in Amsterdam, New York, † September 26, 1939 in Saratoga, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1889 and 1893 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives. Congressman Stephen Sanford was his father and Congressman John Sanford his grandfather.

Career

John Sanford was born about ten years before the outbreak of the Civil War in Montgomery County. He attended community schools, the Amsterdam Academy and the Poughkeepsie Military Institute. In 1872 he graduated from Yale College. Then he went to the carpet-making with his father in Amsterdam. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1888 for the 51st Congress Sanford was in the 20th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of George West on March 4, 1889. He was re-elected once. Since he gave up for reelection in 1892, he retired after March 3, 1893 from the Congress. During this time he took 1892 as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis in part.

After his conference time he returned to his former business activities. Sanford bred race horses and had a suitable team. He was also a member of the New York Racing Commission. He died about three weeks after the outbreak of World War II and was then buried in the Green Hill Cemetery in Amsterdam.