Moses W. Field

Moses Whelock Field ( born February 10, 1828 in Watertown, Jefferson County, New York, † March 14, 1889 in Detroit, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1873 and 1875 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Even in his youth moved with his parents to Moses Field Cato in Cayuga County, where he attended the public schools. In 1844 he settled in Detroit, where he worked in commerce and agriculture. Politically, he joined the Republican Party. From 1863 to 1865 he sat on the city council of Detroit.

In the congressional elections of 1872 he was the first electoral district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded Henry Waldron took up on March 4, 1873, who moved into the second district. As he said Democrats Alpheus S. Williams defeated in the elections of 1874, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1875.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives was Moses Field one of the founders of the short-lived Greenback Party. In May 1876 he organized the first national convention in Indianapolis. In 1888 he was a board member of the University of Michigan. Moses Field spent his evening at his farm " Linden Lawn " in Hamtramck, a suburb of Detroit, where he died on 14 March 1889.

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