Van H. Manning

Vannoy Hartrog " Van " Manning (* July 26, 1839 in Raleigh, North Carolina, † November 3, 1892 in Branchville, Maryland ) was an American politician. Between 1877 and 1883 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Manning already came in 1841 with his parents to Mississippi. He attended the Academy in Horn Lake DeSoto County times and then the University of Nashville in Tennessee. In 1860, Manning moved to Arkansas. After studying law and his 1861 was admitted to the bar he began in Hamburg ( Arkansas) to work in his new profession. During the Civil War, he brought it in the army of the Confederate States to the Colonel in an infantry unit from Arkansas.

After the war, Manning worked as a lawyer in Holly Springs (Mississippi). He became a member of the Democratic Party. In 1876 he was a candidate in the second district of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Guilford Wiley Wells on March 4, 1877. After two elections Manning could pass in Congress until March 3, 1883 a total of three legislative periods. Manning also won the elections of 1884, this time in the newly seventh constituency. These elections but were successfully challenged by James Ronald Chalmers, who thus another term in Congress prevented Manning.

After the end of his political activity in Washington Manning worked as a lawyer in the federal capital. He died in November 1892 in Branchville and was buried in Washington.