Roswell G. Horr

Roswell Gilbert Horr (* November 26, 1830 in Waitsfield, Washington County, Vermont, † December 19, 1896 in Plainfield, New Jersey ) was an American politician. Between 1879 and 1885 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1834 Roswell Horr moved with his parents in the Lorain County, Ohio, where he attended the public schools. Then he studied until 1857 at Antioch College in Yellow Springs. Between 1857 and 1862 he was a Clerk at the Court of Lorain County. After studying law and its made ​​in 1862 admitted to the bar he began in Elyria to work in his new profession. In 1866 he moved to southeastern Missouri, where he spent six years working in the mining industry. In 1872 he settled in East Saginaw ( Michigan) and suggested there as a member of the Republican Party a political career one.

In the congressional elections of 1878 he was in the eighth constituency of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charles C. Ellsworth on March 4, 1879. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1885 three legislative periods. In June 1884 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, was nominated for the James G. Blaine as their presidential candidate. In the years 1884 and 1886 Horr defeated at the polls each Democrat Timothy E. Tarsney.

1890 Roswell Horr moved to New York City, where he was a member until his death on the editorial board of the New York Tribune. He died on 19 December 1896 in Plainfield and was buried in Wellington ( Ohio).