Reuben Ellwood

Reuben Ellwood ( born February 21, 1821 in Minden, Montgomery County, New York, † July 1, 1885 in Sycamore, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1883 and 1885 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Reuben Ellwood attended the common schools and the Cherry Valley Seminary. In the meantime he was in Illinois in agriculture and worked as a laborer before he returned to the state of New York. There he worked in a sawmill. He later straw brooms. At times he employed in his company up to 150 workers. At the same time he embarked on a political career. In 1851 he was a deputy in the New York State Assembly. He was a member of the Republican Party and was founded in 1854 in the June 1856 delegate to the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, was nominated on the John C. Frémont was the first presidential candidate of the party. Since 1857 he lived in Sycamore, where he operated a hardware store and a pharmacy. He later agricultural equipment manufactures.

In the congressional elections of 1882 Ellwood was in the fifth electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Robert R. Hitt on March 4, 1883. After a re-election, he could remain until his death on July 1, 1885 in Congress. Following a special election his seat fell on Albert J. Hopkins.