John Van Lear Findlay

John Van Lear Findlay (* December 21, 1839 in Williamsport, Washington County, Maryland, † April 19, 1907 in Baltimore, Maryland ) was an American politician. Between 1883 and 1887 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Findlay initially enjoyed a private education. Then he studied until 1858 at the Princeton College. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the years 1861 and 1862 he sat in the House of Representatives of Maryland. After a subsequent law degree in 1869 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in Baltimore in this profession. In the years 1865 and 1866 he was a tax collector in the third financial district of Maryland; 1876-1878 he served as a legal representative of the city of Baltimore.

In the congressional elections of 1882 Findlay was in the fourth electoral district of his state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Robert Milligan McLane on March 4, 1883. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1887 two legislative sessions.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Findlay again practiced as a lawyer. In 1889, he was a member of a commission with bilateral entitlements with Venezuela dealt (Venezuela Claims commission ). 1893 failed an appeal in a similar Commission for the State of Chile to the opposition of the U.S. Senate. John Findlay died on April 19, 1907 in Baltimore, where he was also buried.