John Winfield Wallace

John Winfield Wallace ( * December 20, 1818 in Beaver Falls, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, † June 24 1889 in New Castle, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1861 and 1863, and again from 1875 to 1877, he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Wallace visited the Darlington Academy, where he later taught for some time as a teacher. After a subsequent study of medicine at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia and his 1846 was admitted as a doctor, he began in Darlington to work in this profession. Since 1850 he lived in New Castle in Lawrence County. There he struck a political career. He was a member of the Republican Party, founded in 1854 and has held several local offices.

In the congressional elections of 1860 Wallace was the 23rd electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Stewart on March 4, 1861. Since he has not been confirmed in 1862, he was initially able to do only one term in Congress until March 3, 1863. This was marked by the events of the Civil War.

During this war, Wallace served as paymaster in the army of the Union. In the elections of 1874 he was elected to Congress again in the 24th district of his state, where he replaced William S. Moore on March 4, 1875. Since he resigned in 1876 to further candidacy, he could again spend only one term in the U.S. House of Representatives until March 3, 1877. After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives John Wallace practiced again as a doctor in New Castle, where he died on 24 June 1889.