Marion Biggs

Marion Biggs (* May 2, 1823 at Curry Ville, Pike County, Missouri; † August 2, 1910 in Gridley, California ) was an American politician. Between 1887 and 1891 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Marion Biggs attended the public schools of his home. In 1850 he moved during the Gold Rush to California for the first time, but soon returned to Missouri. Between 1852 and 1856 he was sheriff in Monroe County. In 1864 he again went to California, where he worked in the cattle trade and general agriculture. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party. During 1867 and 1869 he was elected to the California State Assembly. In 1878 he was a delegate at a meeting on the revision of the California State Constitution.

In the congressional elections of 1886, Biggs was in the second electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of James A. Louttit on March 4, 1887. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1891 two legislative sessions. In 1890 he gave up another candidacy.

In 1889, Marion Biggs was California State Commissioner for the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the inauguration of President George Washington. He spent his life in Gridley, where he died on 2 August 1910.

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