Romeo H. Freer

Romeo Hoyt Freer ( born November 9, 1846 in Bazetta, Trumbull County, Ohio; † May 9, 1913 in Harrisville, West Virginia ) was an American politician. Between 1899 and 1901 he represented the fourth electoral district of the state of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

At the age of three years, Romeo Freer came with his parents to Ashtabula County, Ohio. There he attended the public schools. Despite his youth, he was during the Civil War soldier in the Union army. In 1866 he settled in Charleston (West Virginia), where he worked as a teacher. After studying law and its made ​​in 1868 admitted to the bar Freer began to work in his new profession. Between 1868 and 1871 he was first deputy and 1871-1873 actual district attorney in Kanawha County. Between 1873 and 1877 he served as American consul in Nicaragua. After that, he was from 1877 to 1879 in the New Mexico Territory Registrar of the Land Administration Authority.

Freer was a member of the Republican Party. In the presidential elections in 1884 he sat in the Electoral College, and gave his vote for the defeated candidate James G. Blaine from. Since 1882 Freer was resident in Harrisville. In 1891 he was elected to the House of Representatives from West Virginia. Between 1892 and 1897 he was Bezirkssstatsanwalt in Ritchie County; 1896 to 1899 he served as a judge in the fourth judicial district of his state.

1898 Freer was selected in the fourth district of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Warren Miller on March 4, 1899. In Congress, he completed until March 3, 1901 but only one legislative period. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives was Freer 1901-1905 Attorney General of West Virginia. Since October 4, 1907 until his death on May 9, 1913, he was postmaster of his home town Harrisville. Since 1884, Romeo Freer was married to Mary Lam.