Josiah Gardner Abbott

Josiah Gardner Abbott ( born November 1, 1814 Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, † June 2nd 1891 in Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. In the years 1876 and 1877, he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Josiah Abbott attended the Chelmsford Academy and then studied until 1832 at Harvard University. After a subsequent law degree from Williams College in Williamstown, and his admission as an attorney, he began to work in this profession. At times, he also worked as a teacher. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In 1836 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts; 1841 to 1842 he was a member of the State Senate. In 1843 he was a member of the staff of Governor Marcus Morton. In 1853, Abbott was a delegate at a convention in part on the revision of the Constitution of Massachusetts. Between 1855 and 1858 he was a judge at the Superior Court in Suffolk County; 1859 to 1865, he served as a board member ( Overseer ) at Harvard University.

Abbott ran several times unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate. In 1860, he later refused an appointment as judges of the Supreme Court of the United States, as well as a year from the site of the United States Attorney General. In the congressional elections of 1874 Abbott lost to Republican Rufus S. Frost. After a successful election objection then he could still win the mandate and take his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives on July 28, 1876. Since he resigned at the regular elections of the year 1876 on another candidacy, he could only finish the current term in Congress until March 3, 1877. Beginning of 1877 was a member of the Abbott appointed by Congress Commission to clarify the disputed presidential election of 1876 between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Josiah Abbott again practiced as a lawyer. He died on 2 June 1891 in Wellesley Hills, near Boston.