Norton Strange Townshend

Norton Strange Townshend

Norton Strange Townshend (* 25. December 1815 in Clay Coton , Daventry District , England ; † 13. July 1895 in Columbus , Ohio ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party . From 1851 to 1853 he was a member of the House of Representatives of the United States for 21  congressional districts of the State of Ohio.

biography

Norton Strange Townshend was born in Clay Coton, England. In 1830 he immigrated to the USA with his family. They settled in Avon , Ohio. He taught himself with his father's library. For a short time he also attended a public school. At Columbia University he completed his medical degree in 1840. Before he opened his medical practice in Avon in 1841, he was an intern at hospitals in London , Paris , Edinburgh and Dublin . He moved to Elyria . He served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1848 to 1849.

To succeed Joseph M. Root , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in 1850 as a representative of the 21st District of Ohio. He sat there until 1853. From 1854 to 1855 he sat in the Ohio Senate . During the Civil War , Townshend was last employed in the rank of Lieutenant Colonel as a medical inspector. At Ohio State University he became a professor of agricultural sciences in 1873 after he had occupied with agriculture after retiring from politics. In 1892 he retired.

Norton Strange Townshend died in Columbus in 1895 and was buried in the Protestant Cemetery.

Web links

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• Norton Strange Townshend in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Norton Strange Townshend in the database of Find a Grave (English)