John Stoughton Newberry

John Stoughton Newberry ( born November 18, 1826 in Waterville, Oneida County, New York, † January 2, 1887 in Detroit, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1879 and 1881 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Even as a child came Newberry with his parents to Michigan, where he attended the Romeo Academy. Then he studied until 1847 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The following two years he worked as an engineer in railway construction. After a subsequent law degree, he was admitted in 1853 as a lawyer. John Newberry published in the wake of the first volume with court decisions on cases that had occurred in the western waters. The early 1860s he was active in the field of railway wagon construction. He became a partner of such a firm, then the Michigan Car Company emerged from the in Detroit.

Between 1862 and 1864 Newberry was during the Civil War captain in the Military Police ( Provost Marshal ) in the area of the State of Michigan. Since 1864, he engaged in various craft companies. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1878 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 Alpheus S. Williams on March 4, 1879. Since he resigned in 1880 to run again, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1881.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Newberry has held no other public office; He died on January 2, 1887 in Detroit. He was married twice. From his second marriage to Helen P. Handy was born the son of Truman (1864-1945), who represented the state of Michigan 1919-1922 in the U.S. Senate and was previously Secretary of the Navy of the United States.