William H. Upson

William H. Upson

William Hanford Upson (born January 11, 1823 in Worthington , Franklin County , Ohio , †  April 13, 1910 in Akron , Ohio) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1869 and 1873 he represented the state of Ohio in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Upson attended Tallmadge Academy and then until 1842 the Western Reserve College in Hudson . After a law degree at Yale College and in Painesville and his 1845 admission as a lawyer, he began to work in Akron in 1846 in this profession. Between 1848 and 1850 he was a prosecutor in the local Summit County . Between 1853 and 1855 he was a member of the Ohio Senate . He joined the Republican Party founded in 1854 . In the years 1864 and 1876 he took part as a delegate to their Republican National Conventions , at which Abraham Lincoln and Rutherford B. Hayes were nominated as presidential candidates.

In the 1868 congressional election , Upson was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 18th  electoral district of Ohio , where he succeeded Rufus P. Spalding on March 4, 1869 . After re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1873 . From 1871 he was chairman of the Committee on Private Land Claims . In 1870 the 15th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified. In 1872 William Upson renounced another candidacy.

In 1883 he became an associate judge on the Supreme Court of Ohio ; from 1884 to 1894 he was a judge on the Circuit Court of Ohio . Then he practiced again as a private lawyer. He died on April 13, 1910 in Akron, where he was also buried.

Web links

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• William H. Upson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William H. Upson in the database of Find a Grave (English)