Timothy E. Tarsney

Timothy Edward Tarsney ( born February 4, 1849 in Ransom, Hillsdale County, Michigan; † June 8, 1909 in Detroit, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1885 and 1889 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Timothy Tarsney attended the public schools of his home. During the Civil War he served in the occupied by the Union troops for the entertainment of Tennessee state highways. He then settled in Saginaw, where he worked as a mechanic at a sawmill. In 1867 he was also active in marine engineering. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and its made ​​in 1872 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in East Saginaw. In 1873 he was Justice of the Peace, 1875-1878 then municipal judge in East Saginaw.

Politically Tarsney member of the Democratic Party. In 1880 he ran for the first time, but still unsuccessfully for Congress. In 1884 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, was nominated to the Grover Cleveland as a presidential candidate. In the congressional elections of 1884 Tarsney was in the eighth constituency of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Roswell G. Horr on March 4, 1885. After a re-election - he defeated Horr again - he was able to complete two terms in Congress, 1889 to March 3. In the 1888 elections, he was defeated by Republican Aaron T. Bliss.

In 1893 he moved to Detroit, where he worked as a lawyer. Between 1900 and 1908 he also worked as a consultant this city. Timothy Tarsney died on June 8, 1909 in Detroit, and was buried in Saginaw.

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