Mason C. Darling

Mason Cook Darling ( born May 18, 1801 in Amherst, Massachusetts, † March 12, 1866 in Chicago, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1848 and 1849 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Mason Darling attended the public schools of his home. After that, he taught for several years as a teacher in New York State. After a subsequent study medicine at the Berkshire Medical College and performed his medical license in 1824, he worked in the following 13 years in this profession. In 1837 he moved into the Wisconsin Territory. There he was one of the first settlers in Fond du Lac.

In his new home Darling began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1840 and 1846 he was a member of the Territorial House of Representatives; 1847 to 1848 he was a member of the Territorial Government. After the accession of Wisconsin to the Union, he was in the second constituency of the new state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on June 9, 1848. Since he decided not to run again for the congressional elections of 1848, he could only finish the current term in Congress until March 3, 1849.

1852 Darling Du Lac was elected mayor of his hometown of Fond. Otherwise, he practiced as a doctor again; He also became active in the real estate business. In 1864 he moved to Chicago, where he died on 12 March 1866. Mason Darling was buried in Fond Du Lac.

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