Joseph Lyman

Joseph Lyman (* September 13, 1840 in Lyons, Ionia County, Michigan, † July 9, 1890 in Council Bluffs, Iowa ) was an American politician. Between 1885 and 1889 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph Lyman attended the public schools in Ohio and moved in 1857 to Big Grove, Iowa. He then studied at Iowa College, Grinnell. Between 1861 and 1865 Lyman served during the Civil War, first in the cavalry and later in the infantry on the side of the Union. He reached the rank of Major. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1866 admitted to the bar he began in Council Bluffs to work in his new profession. Between 1867 and 1870, Lyman was deputy head of the tax authority in the fifth financial district of Iowa. In 1884 he was District Judge.

Politically, Lyman member of the Republican Party. In 1884, he was as their candidate in the ninth constituency of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he met on March 4, 1885 the successor to the Democrats William Henry Mills Pusey. After a re-election in 1886, Lyman was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1889 two legislative sessions.

In 1888, he opted not to run again. As a result, he again worked as a lawyer. Joseph Lyman died in July 1890 in Council Bluffs and was also buried there.

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