Scott Wike

Scott Wike ( born April 6, 1834 in Meadville, Pennsylvania, † January 15, 1901 in Barry, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1875 and 1877, and again from 1889 to 1893, he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1838 Scott Wike moved with his parents to Quincy, Illinois. Six years later the family moved to the Pike County on. Until 1856 he attended Lombard University in Galesburg. After studying law at Harvard University and his admission to the bar he began in 1859 to work in Pittsfield in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1863 and 1867 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Illinois.

In the congressional elections of 1874 Wike in the eleventh electoral district of Illinois was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Robert M. Knapp on March 4, 1875. Since he was not nominated by his party for re-election in 1876, which again instead aufstellte Knapp, he was initially able to do only one term in Congress until March 3, 1877. In the following years practiced Wike again as a lawyer. In the 1888 elections, he was elected again to Congress in the twelfth district of his state, where he replaced George A. Anderson on March 4, 1889. After a re-election, he could remain until March 3, 1893 U.S. House of Representatives. In 1892, he was not nominated by his party for re-election.

Between 1893 and 1897 acted Scott Wike during the second term of President Grover Cleveland as Deputy Secretary of the Treasury. After that he worked as a lawyer again. At that time he also took a trip to England to study the British Income Tax Act. Here he was concerned with the question of whether this could be transferred to the United States.

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