Turner M. Marquette

Turner Mastin Marquette (* July 19, 1831 in Springfield, Ohio, † December 22, 1894 in Tampa, Florida ) was an American politician. In 1867 he represented for two days the state of Nebraska in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Marquette Turner attended the public schools of his home and then the Springfield High School and the Wittenberg College. Then he graduated from the Ohio University in Athens. In 1856 he moved to Plattsmouth in Nebraska Territory, where he worked for a law degree as a lawyer.

Marquette was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1857 and 1859 he was a member of the Territorial House of Representatives, from 1860 to 1861 he was a member of the Territorial Government. In the congressional elections of 1866 he was elected delegate of the territory in the U.S. House of Representatives. However, since the territory had dissolved in the meantime, and as a federal state the United States was a party, this election was invalid. But Marquette won the first regular congressional elections as a Member of the only electoral district of Nebraska. However, he could take his seat until 2 March 1867, since at that time the membership was effective. For Marquette thus remained only two days as a congressman, as the legislative session of Congress ended on March 3.

He then worked again as a lawyer in Plattsmouth. In 1874, Marquette Turner moved to Lincoln. From 1869 until his death in 1894 he was the legal representative of the Railway Company Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad.