John W. Longyear

John Wesley Longyear ( born October 22, 1820 Shandaken, Ulster County, New York, † March 11, 1875 in Detroit, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1863 and 1867 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Longyear visited the Lima Academy in New York State and worked for some years as a teacher. In 1844 he moved to Mason in Michigan, where he also worked as a teacher. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1846 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession from 1847 in Lansing.

Politically, Longyear member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1862 he was in the third electoral district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Francis William Kellogg on March 4, 1863. After a re-election in 1864 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1867 two legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events of the civil war and its consequences. Since 1865 he witnessed in Congress the conflict between his party and the new President Andrew Johnson on the Reconstruction. During his time in the U.S. House of Representatives John Longyear was chairman of the Committee for the control of expenditure on public property.

1866 renounced Longyear a renewed candidacy for Congress. This year he took part in Philadelphia as a delegate at the Loyalistenkongress. 1867 Longyear was a member of a meeting to revise the constitution of Michigan. On 7 February 1870, he was appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant to the judge at the Federal District Court for the Eastern part of Michigan. In 1871 he moved to Detroit, where he died on 11 March 1875.

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