Nathaniel Cobb Deering

Nathaniel Cobb Deering ( born September 2, 1827 in Denmark, Oxford County, Maine, † December 11, 1887 in Osage, Iowa ) was an American politician. Between 1877 and 1883 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Nathaniel Deering attended the common schools and the North Bridgeton Academy. He then worked as a teacher and store clerk, before he took part in the California gold rush in 1850. Two years later he returned with some assets back to Maine. There he produced paper in its own factory, until it was destroyed by a fire in 1856. Between 1855 and 1856 Deering was a deputy in the House of Representatives from Maine.

In 1857 Deering moved to Osage, Iowa. There he went into the lumber business. He also operated a sawmill. Through his friendship with the then Vice-President Hannibal Hamlin, he received an administrative center in the U.S. Senate, which he held until 1865. Between 1865 and 1869 Deering worked as Special Representative of Post Ministry of Postal Districts Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska. From 1872 to 1877 he was a bank auditor for the State of Iowa.

Deering was a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1876 he was in the fourth electoral district of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Henry Otis Pratt on March 4, 1877. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1883 three legislative periods. Between 1881 and 1883 he was chairman of the committee responsible for supervising the expenditure of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives to Deering engaged in agriculture. He also went into the cattle business in Montana. At the time of his death he was president of a large cattle company. Nathaniel Deering died on 11 December 1887 in Osage malaria.