Peter Percival Elder

Peter Percival Elder ( born September 20, 1823 in New Portland, Somerset County, Maine, † November 19, 1914 in Ottawa, Kansas ) was an American politician. Between 1871 and 1873 he was Deputy Governor of the State of Kansas.

Career

Peter Elder attended the common schools and taught then as a teacher. In 1857 he moved to the Kansas Territory, which was ravaged at the time of bloody battles between supporters and opponents of slavery. Elder he was opposed to this institution. He was involved in the establishment of the local Franklin County. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In 1859 he was employed as a clerk in the territorial House of Representatives. After the accession of Kansas to the Union, he was a member of the local senate. During the Civil War he was commissioned by the federal government so that local Indian tribes of the Union to vote against a friendly and win some Indians even for the army of the Union. In 1865, he moved to Ottawa; in 1868 he was again elected to the Senate from Kansas and 1870 he was state chairman of his party.

1870 Elder was elected to the side of James Madison Harvey Vice Governor of Kansas. This post he held between January 9, 1871, and January 13, 1873. Yet he was assistant to the governor. Between 1875 and 1877, and again in 1883 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Kansas. In 1877 he was president of this chamber. In the meantime, he was also mayor of Ottawa. Peter Elder also continued successfully for a railway connection to its homeland. He was president of this railroad company. He was also president of the First National Bank of Ottawa. Later he devoted himself more to agriculture and animal husbandry. In 1896 he founded the newspaper Ottawa Times, which he edited for several years. He died on 19 November 1914 in Ottawa.