Luther F. McKinney

Luther Franklin McKinney ( born April 25, 1841 in Newark, Ohio; † 30 July 1922 in Bridgton, Maine ) was an American politician. Between 1887 and 1889, and from 1891 to 1893, he represented the State of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives. Also served 1893-1897 as the United States Ambassador in Colombia.

Career

Luther McKinney attended both public and private schools in his home and worked himself as a teacher. During the Civil War he was between August 1861 and February 1863 soldier in a cavalry regiment from Ohio. In 1865 he moved to Iowa, where he worked in agriculture and as a teacher until 1867. Then he studied until 1870 at St. Lawrence University in Canton ( New York). In 1871 he moved to Bridgton, Maine, where he ordained as a priest and pastor of the Universalist Church of America was. In 1873 he first moved to Newfields and 1875 to Manchester, New Hampshire. In both places, he worked as a clergyman.

McKinney was a member of the Democratic Party and was a candidate in 1884 for the first time unsuccessfully for a seat in Congress. Two years later he was but then elected in the first district of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of the Republican Martin Alonzo Haynes on March 4, 1887. Since he lost to Alonzo Nute in the elections of 1888, he was initially able to do only one term in Congress until March 3, 1889. 1890 McKinney was able to regain his old seat in the House of Representatives, after which he spent between 4 March 1891, the March 3, 1893 a further term in this chamber.

In 1892, McKinney gave up another run for Congress. Instead, he competed unsuccessfully for the office of governor of New Hampshire: He was defeated while the Republican John Butler Smith. Between 1893 and 1897 he was the U.S. ambassador to Colombia during the second presidency of his party colleague Grover Cleveland. After his return to the United States he returned to Bridgton, where he went into the furniture business. Between 1907 and 1908 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Maine. After that he worked as a pastor of his church in Bridgton again. Luther McKinney died on 30 July 1922.

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