Mark L. De Motte

Mark Lindsey De Motte ( born December 28, 1832 in Rockville, Parke County, Indiana, † September 23, 1908 in Valparaiso, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1881 and 1883 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Life

After primary school, Mark De Motte studied until 1853 at the Asbury University, later DePauw University in Greencastle, literature. After a subsequent law degree from the same university in 1855 and was admitted to his lawyer, he began to work in Valparaiso in this profession. In 1856 he was prosecutor in the 67th Judicial District of Indiana. During the Civil War, De Motte served in the army of the Union. He rose to become captain.

After his military service, he moved to Lexington, Missouri, where he purchased a newspaper and published. Politically, Mark De Motte member of the Republican Party. In the years 1872 and 1876, he ran unsuccessfully for Congress in each case. In 1876 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Cincinnati, was nominated at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Candidate. In 1877 he returned to Valparaiso, where he practiced as a lawyer again. Two years later he founded the Northern Indiana Law School, which he was dean from 1890 until his death in 1908.

In the congressional elections of 1880, De Motte in the tenth electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William H. Calkins on March 4, 1881. Since he Democrat Thomas Jefferson Wood defeated in 1882, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1883. Between 1886 and 1890 Mark De Motte sat in the Senate of Indiana; 1890 to 1894 he was postmaster in Valparaiso. In this city he died on 23 September 1908.