William Loughridge

William Loughridge ( born July 11, 1827 in Youngstown, Ohio; † September 26th, 1889 at Reading, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1867 and 1871, and again from 1873 to 1875, he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Loughridge attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1849 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Mansfield. In 1852 he moved to Iowa, where he settled in Oskaloosa in Mahaska County.

Loughridge was a member of the Republican Party, founded in 1854. Between 1857 and 1860 he was a member of the Senate of Iowa; 1861 to 1867 he was a judge in the Sixth Judicial District of Iowa. In the congressional elections of 1866 he was a candidate of his party in the fourth electoral district of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Josiah Bushnell Grinnell on March 4, 1867. After a re-election in 1868 he was initially able to complete two terms in Congress, 1871 to March 3. During this time there was just the failed impeachment of President Andrew Johnson. In addition, the 14th and the 15th Amendment to the Constitution were adopted. This African Americans the rights of citizenship and voting rights were granted.

1870 lost Loughridge in the nomination for a second term party internally against Madison Miner Walden. But with the elections of 1872 he succeeded in the sixth district of the re-entry into the Congress. There he took over from the March 4, 1873 Jackson Orr. Since he was not nominated in 1874 by his party, he was able to complete only one more term in the House of Representatives until March 3, 1875. After the end of his final term William Loughridge has had no further important political office. He died on 26 September 1889 in near Reading and was buried in Oskaloosa.