Milton J. Durham

Milton Jameson Durham ( * May 16, 1824 in Perryville, Boyle County, Kentucky, † February 12, 1911 in Lexington, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1873 and 1879 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Milton Durham attended the public schools of his home. Then he studied until 1844 in Greencastle (Indiana) at today's DePauw University. Then Durham worked for several years as a teacher. After a subsequent law studies at the Louisville Law School and was admitted as an attorney of his 1850 he began to work in Danville in this profession. In the years 1861 and 1862 he was a judge in the eighth judicial district of Kentucky.

Politically, Durham member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1872 he was in the eighth election district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of George Madison Adams on March 4, 1873. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1879 three legislative periods. Between 1875 and 1877 he was chairman of the committee to revise the laws. Before the elections of 1878 Durham was not nominated by his party for another term of office.

After retiring from Congress Milton Durham practiced first as a lawyer again. Between 1885 and 1889 he served as First Comptroller of the Treasury for the U.S. Treasury. In 1890 he moved to Lexington, where he went into the banking business. Since 1901 until his death in 1911 he worked for the tax office in Lexington. He was buried in Danville.