Joseph E. McDonald

Joseph Ewing McDonald ( born August 29, 1819 Butler County, Ohio, † June 21, 1891 in Indianapolis, Indiana ) was an American politician (Democratic Party), who represented the state of Indiana in both chambers of Congress.

In 1826, Joseph McDonald and his mother moved from Ohio to Montgomery County, Indiana. At twelve, he went to a saddler in Lafayette in teaching. Later he attended Wabash College in Crawfordsville, before he made in 1840 graduated from Asbury University in Greencastle. He then studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1843 and worked from 1843 to 1847 as a prosecutor before he settled as an independent lawyer in Crawfordsville.

His political career began with the election to the House of Representatives of the United States, where he served as a representative of the eighth congressional district of Indiana from March 4, 1849. After two years he resigned first back out of the Congress. In 1856 he was elected Attorney General of Indiana, where he stayed for a confirmation in office until 1860. After moving to Indianapolis in 1859, McDonald competed in 1864 unsuccessfully for the governorship of Indiana; he was defeated by Republican incumbent Oliver Hazard Perry Morton, with whom he had long been friends, clearly.

1874 candidate Joseph McDonald then successfully for a seat in the United States Senate, a position he held from March 4, 1875 to March 3, 1881. When trying to re-election, he failed in the late U.S. President Benjamin Harrison. McDonald retired after from politics and died in 1891 in Indianapolis.