Theodore Frelinghuysen Singiser

Theodore Frelinghuysen Singiser

Theodore Frelinghuysen Singiser (born March 15, 1845 in Churchtown , Cumberland County , Pennsylvania , † January 23, 1907 in Chicago , Illinois ) was an American politician . Between 1883 and 1885 he represented the Idaho Territory as a delegate in the US House of Representatives .

Early years

Theodore Singiser attended the public schools in his home country and then completed an apprenticeship as a printer. During the Civil War he was a soldier in the Union Army. Between 1866 and 1867 he was employed by the tax authorities. At the same time he was active in trade and in the printing industry. After studying law, he was admitted to the bar in Washington, DC in 1878 . Between 1875 and 1879 he worked for the US Treasury Department . He then moved to the west, where he worked in the area of ​​what is now Idaho and Utah with mining. In Oxford, Idaho, he was also a tax collector.

Political career

Singiser became a member of the Republican Party . In 1880 he became the Secretary of State executive officer in the Idaho Territory. In the winter of 1881 to 1882 he also served as the provisional territorial governor of this area. In the congressional election of 1882 Singiser was elected a delegate in the US House of Representatives, where he replaced George Ainslie on March 4, 1883 . After he lost the following congressional elections in 1884, he could only hold one term in Congress until March 3, 1885 . His seat went to the Democrat John Hailey , who had already exercised this mandate between 1873 and 1875.

Another résumé

Between 1885 and 1889, Singiser was a tax collector in Mitchell in what is now South Dakota , which was then still part of the Dakota Territory . He then moved to Salt Lake City , where he worked in the mining industry. Theodore Singiser died in Chicago in January 1907 and was buried in Mechanicsburg , Pennsylvania.

Web links

• Theodore Frelinghuysen Singiser in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Theodore Frelinghuysen Singiser in the database of Find a Grave (English)