Nicholas E. Worthington

Nicholas Ellsworth Worthington ( born March 30, 1833, Brooke County, Virginia; † March 4, 1916 in Peoria, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1883 and 1887 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Born in what is now West Virginia Nicholas Worthington attended Allegheny College in Meadville (Pennsylvania). After a subsequent law degree in 1860 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started working in Peoria in this profession. Between 1865 and 1872 he was in Peoria County School Board; 1869 to 1872 he was a member of the State Board of Education of Illinois. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1882 Worthington was in the tenth electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican Benjamin F. Marsh on March 4, 1883. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1887 two legislative sessions. In the years 1886 and 1888 he applied unsuccessfully to his disappearance and his return to the Congress.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Worthington initially practiced as a lawyer again. Between 1891 and 1915 he was a judge in the Tenth Judicial District of the State of. In 1894 he was also a member of a set of President Grover Cleveland Commission for investigations of workers' strikes. Nicholas Worthinhton died on March 4, 1916 in Peoria, where he was also buried.