Joseph H. Gaines

Joseph Holt Gaines ( born September 3, 1864 in Washington DC, † April 12, 1951 in Montgomery, West Virginia ) was an American politician. Between 1901 and 1911 he represented the third electoral district of the state of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph Gaines moved in 1867 with his parents in the Fayette County, West Virginia. Later he attended Princeton College, the West Virginia University in Morgantown and then to 1886. After studying law and its made ​​in 1887 admitted to the bar he began in Fayetteville to work in his new profession. Between 1897 and 1901 acted Gaines as a federal prosecutor for the area of the State of West Virginia.

Gaines was a member of the Republican Party and was elected in 1900 as their candidate in the third district of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he met on March 4, 1901 the successor to the Democrats David Emmons Johnston. After four elections he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1911 five contiguous legislatures. Since 1903 he was chairman of the committee that dealt with the presidential and congressional elections. In the elections of 1910 he was defeated by Democrat Adam Brown Littlepage.

After retiring from Congress to Gaines retired from federal politics. He worked as a lawyer in Charleston. Joseph Gaines died in 1951 in Montgomery and was buried in Charleston.