Orlando B. Ficklin

Orlando Bell Ficklin ( born December 16, 1808 Scott County, Kentucky; † May 5, 1886 in Charleston, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1843 and 1849, and again from 1851 to 1853, he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Orlando Ficklin attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent law studies at the Transylvania Law School in Lexington and his 1830 was admitted as a lawyer, he started in Mount Carmel (Illinois ) to work in this profession. In 1832 he took part in the Black Hawk War. After that, he was a colonel in the militia in Wabash County. In this district he was prosecutor in 1835. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In the years 1835, 1838 and 1842 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Illinois.

In the congressional elections of 1842 Ficklin was in the third electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John T. Stuart on March 4, 1843. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1849 three legislative periods. These were shaped by the events of the Mexican-American War. From 1845 to 1847 he was chairman of the Committee on public properties. In the elections of 1850 he was again elected to Congress, where he replaced Timothy R. Young again on March 4, 1851 which was two years before become his successor. Until March 3, 1853, he completed a further term of office, which was determined by the events leading up to the Civil War. During this time, Ficklin was chairman of the Committee for the administration of the Federal District District of Columbia.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Orlando Ficklin again practiced as a lawyer. In the years 1856, 1860 and 1864, he participated as a delegate to the respective Democratic National Conventions, where he attended the convention in Charleston in 1860 and not the second in Baltimore. In the years 1869 and 1870 he was a delegate at a meeting on the revision of the Constitution of Illinois; In 1878 he sat again as a deputy in the State Parliament. He died on 5 May 1886 in Charleston.