Peter D. Wigginton

Peter Dinwiddie Wigginton ( born September 6, 1839 in Springfield, Illinois, † July 7, 1890 in Oakland, California ) was an American politician. Between 1875 and 1879 he represented two times the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1843 Peter Wigginton moved with his parents to Wisconsin, where he attended the public schools. He then studied at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. After a subsequent law degree in 1859 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. At that time he also edited the newspaper Dodgeville Advocate. In 1862, Wigginton moved to Snelling in California, where he also practiced law. Between 1864 and 1868 he was district attorney in Merced County. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1874 Wigginton in the fourth electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Sherman Otis Houghton on March 4, 1875. Two years later he was defeated by only one vote difference the Governor Romualdo Pacheco. Wigginton appealed against the outcome of this election is a contradiction. As this has been complied with, he could take on 7 February 1878, the mandate of Pacheco and take his old seat in Congress again. Until March 3, 1879, he ended the current legislative session in Congress.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Wigginton worked as a lawyer in San Francisco. In 1886, he ran unsuccessfully against Washington Bartlett for the office of governor of California; In 1888 he was a candidate of the American Party, a short-lived splinter party, for the office of U.S. Vice President. When running mate of presidential candidate James Langdon Curtis he came to 1.6 percent of the vote. Peter Wigginton died on July 7, 1890 in Oakland.

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