Nelson B. McCormick

Nelson B. McCormick (* November 20, 1847 in Waynesburg, Green County, Pennsylvania, † April 10, 1914 in Phillipsburg, Kansas ) was an American politician. Between 1897 and 1899 he represented the sixth electoral district of the state of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Nelson McCormick attended the public schools of his home. In 1867 he moved to the Marion County in Iowa. There he managed a farm and raised livestock. In 1877 he moved to the Phillips County, Kansas. After studying law and its made ​​in 1882 Admitted to the Bar in Phillipsburg McCormick began to work in his new profession.

Politically, a member of the McCormick emerged from the Farmer Movement Populist Party. Between 1886 and 1888 he was deputy and 1890-1894 actual district attorney in Phillips County. In the congressional elections of 1896, he was elected in the sixth district of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he entered on March 4, 1897, the successor of William Baker, who did not stand. Since he Republican William A. Reeder defeated in the elections of 1898, he was able to complete up to March 3, 1899 only one term in Congress, which was dominated by the events of the Spanish-American War.

After the end of his time in Congress McCormick again worked as an attorney in Phillipsburg. Politically, he stepped over to the Democratic Party. In 1904 and 1908 he was a delegate to the party days in Kansas. Since 1910 until his death in 1914 he was once again District Attorney in Phillips County.

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