Solomon L. Spink

Solomon Lewis Spink ( born March 20, 1831 in Whitehall, New York, † September 22, 1881 in Yankton, South Dakota ) was an American politician. Between 1869 and 1871 he represented as a delegate the Dakota Territory in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Early years

Spink Solomon attended the public schools of his home and then the Castleton Seminary in Vermont. Then he taught himself some years as a teacher before he was admitted for a law degree in 1856 as an attorney. Then he started in Burlington in Iowa to work in his new profession. In 1860, Spinks moved to Paris (Illinois), where he edited the newspaper " Prairie Beacon ."

Political career

Spink was a member of the Republican Party. In 1864 he became a deputy in the House of Representatives from Illinois. After his appointment as Secretary of State in the Dakota Territory by President Abraham Lincoln Solomon Spink moved to this area, where he held his new office 1865-1869. In the congressional elections of 1868, he was elected as a candidate of his party for the new delegate in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. This mandate he perceived between 4 March 1869 to 3 March, 1871. After he was not re-elected in 1870, he was forced to resign his seat in Moses K. Armstrong of the Democratic Party.

After his return from Washington Spink Solomon worked in Yankton as a lawyer. In 1876 he applied unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for the congressional elections. Instead of him, Jefferson P. Kidder was nominated and elected in the consequence also for delegates in Congress. Spink Solomon died in September 1881 and was buried in Yankton.

737276
de