Tobias A. Plants

Tobias Avery Plants ( born March 17, 1811 in Sewickley, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, † June 19, 1887 in Pomeroy, Ohio ) was an American politician. Between 1865 and 1869 he represented the state of Ohio in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Tobias Plants initially received only a limited education. At the age of twelve years he completed a saddler teaching. Then he attended Beaver College in Meadville. After that, he taught as a teacher. After a simultaneous study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession from 1846 in Athens ( Ohio). Soon after, he moved to Pomeroy. Politically, he joined in the 1850s the Republican Party. From 1858 to 1861 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Ohio. Around the year 1860 he published his own newspaper, the Weekly Telegraph Pomeroy, out.

In the congressional elections of 1864 Plants in the 15th electoral district of Ohio in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrat James R. Morris on March 4, 1865. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1869 two legislative sessions. In this time, the end of the Civil War fell. In addition, the 13th and the 14th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified. Since 1865 the work of the Congress was overshadowed by the tensions between the Republicans and President Andrew Johnson, which culminated in a narrowly failed impeachment.

In 1868 Tobias Plants renounced another candidacy. Between 1873 and 1875 he served as an appellate judge in Meigs County. He then continued his legal practice. From 1878 until his death he was president of the First City Bank of Pomeroy. He died on June 19, 1887 in Pomeroy, where he was also buried.