Nehemiah D. Sperry

Nehemiah Day Sperry (* July 10, 1827 in Woodbridge, Connecticut, † November 13, 1911 in New Haven, Connecticut ) was an American politician. Between 1895 and 1911 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Nenehmiah Sperry attended both public and private schools in his homeland. He then worked in agriculture and as a miller. For several years he worked as a teacher. Then he worked for a construction company. In 1853, his political career began in the city council of Woodbridge.

Sperry was a member of the Republican Party, founded in 1854. In the years 1855 and 1856 he was managing as Secretary of State official of the government of Connecticut. 1856, 1864 and 1888, he participated as a delegate to the Republican National Conventions relevant, on which were John C. Frémont, Abraham Lincoln and Benjamin Harrison nominated as presidential candidate of the party. Sperry was at both the state and at the federal level from time to time on the board of his party. In Connecticut, he was even temporarily party chairman.

During the Civil War Sperry was chairman of the recruitment offices in New Haven. In July 1861 he was appointed by President Lincoln in this city to the post holder. This office he held until 1886. This year he was deposed by the Democratic President Grover Cleveland. Between 1890 and 1894 he was again postmaster in New Haven.

1894 Sperry was in the second district of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1895 on the succession of Democrat James P. Pigott. After seven elections he could pass in Congress until March 3, 1911 eight legislatures. In 1899 he was chairman of the committee that dealt with the alcohol trade. In 1910, Sperry opted not to run again. After the expiration of his last term, he left Washington. He died in the same year, on 13 November 1911 in New Haven, and was also buried there.