Norman B. Judd

Norman Buel Judd ( born January 10, 1815 in Rome, New York, † November 11, 1878 in Chicago, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1867 and 1871 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Norman Judd was the grandfather of the New York Congressman Norman Judd Gould ( 1877-1964 ). He attended the common schools. After a subsequent law degree in 1836 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he first began to work in Rome in this profession. In the same year he transferred his residence and his law firm to Chicago. Between 1837 and 1839 he was the legal representative of the city. Between 1844 and 1860 he was a member of the Illinois Senate. He was a member of the Republican Party, founded in 1854. In May 1860 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention, was nominated on the Abraham Lincoln as a presidential candidate. After his inauguration as U.S. president, he appointed Judd as the successor of Joseph A. Wright to the American ambassador to Prussia. This Positoon he held 1861-1865.

In the congressional elections of 1866, Judd was the first electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Wentworth on March 4, 1867. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1871 two legislative sessions. Until 1869, the work of the Congress was overshadowed by the tensions between the Republican Party and President Andrew Johnson, which culminated in a narrowly failed impeachment.

In 1870, Judd gave up another Congress candidate. In 1872 he was appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant to head the customs authority at the port of Chicago. This office he held until his death on 11 November 1878.

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