Joseph H. Acklen
Joseph Hayes Acklen ( born May 20, 1850 in Nashville, Tennessee, † September 28, 1938 ) was an American politician. Between 1878 and 1881 he represented the state of Louisiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
Joseph Acklen was born into a rich family from Tennessee who had Ballangen Plant in Louisiana. It has received private education and then attended during the years 1864 and 1865 the Burlington Military College in New Jersey. Then he studied in Switzerland and in France. After a subsequent law studies at the Lebanon Law School in Tennessee and its made in 1871 admitted to the bar he began in Nashville and later working in Memphis in his new profession.
Acklen decided after a few years, abandon his lawyer in Tennessee and moving to Louisiana, where he managed a sugar plantation near Patterson. In 1876 he was a colonel in the state militia of Louisiana. Politically Acklen was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1876 he was defeated by Republican incumbent Chester Bidwell Darrall. Acklen but put against the outcome of this election a contradiction. This was granted on 20 February 1878. On this day he was able to take his seat in Congress. After a re-election, he could remain until March 3, 1881 U.S. House of Representatives. In 1880 he gave up another candidacy. In the following years, Joseph Acklen worked as a lawyer in Franklin. An offer by President Rutherford B. Hayes, who offered him the job of a federal judge, he refused. In 1882, he competed unsuccessfully to return to the U.S. House of Representatives.
1885 Joseph Acklen returned to Nashville, where he worked as a lawyer. Between 1886 and 1894 he was Democratic Party chairman in Davidson County. Between 1900 and 1904 he was a member of the City Council of Nashville. He also appeared in the years 1901 and 1902 President of the Bar Association of Tennessee. From 1903 to 1907, Acklen insurance adviser to the state government of Tennessee. He was also a gamekeeper, forestry and fisheries officer first for the state of Tennessee (1903-1913) and then to 1914 for the federal government. Between 1907 and 1911 Acklen served as president of a railroad company. Politically, he was 1923-1927 Chairman of the Committee for the revision of the Constitution of Tennessee. He was also known as the author of numerous books, which dealt mainly with nature themes such as fisheries, forests or forest. Joseph Acklen died on 28 September 1938 in his native Nashville.