John Stockdale Rhea

John Stockdale Rhea ( born March 9, 1855 in Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky; † July 29, 1924 ) was an American politician. Between 1897 and 1905 he represented twice the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Rhea attended after elementary school Bethel College in Russellville. He then studied at Washington and Lee University in Lexington ( Virginia). After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began in 1873 to work in this profession. In the years 1878 and 1882, he served as a prosecutor in Logan County. Politically, Rhea was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1884 and 1888 he was one of the democratic electors in the presidential elections. He voted for each of Grover Cleveland. 1892 and 1896 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, where Grover Cleveland and later William Jennings Bryan was nominated as the presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1896 Rhea was in the third electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded W. Godfrey Hunter of the Republican Party on 4 March 1897. 1898 and 1900 Rhea was confirmed in each case. However, the choice of the year 1900 by J. McKenzie Moss was challenged. As this was Objection, Rhea had given his mandate to Moss on March 25, 1902. In his previous term of office of the Spanish-American War was launched.

In the elections of 1902 Rhea managed to return to the Congress. There he repressed McKenzie Moss out of the office. By March 3, 1905 Rhea could do another regular legislative session in Congress. For the elections of 1904 he abandoned a bid again. As a result, John Rhea again practiced as a lawyer. Between 1913 and 1922 he served as District Judge. He died on 29 July 1924 in his birthplace of Russellville.