Adin B. Capron

Adin B. Capron

Adin Ballou Capron (born January 9, 1841 in Mendon , Worcester County , Massachusetts , † March 17, 1911 in Stillwater , Rhode Island ) was an American politician . Between 1897 and 1911 he represented the second constituency of the state of Rhode Island in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Adin Capron attended the Woonsocket High School in Rhode Iceland and then the Westbrook Seminary near Portland ( Maine ). After finishing school he settled in Stillwater (Rhode Island), where he worked as a miller and in the grain trade. During the Civil War , he served in a Rhode Island volunteer unit on the Union side. By the end of the war, he rose to a major in brevet.

Politically, Capron was a member of the Republican Party . Between 1887 and 1892 he was an MP in the Rhode Island House of Representatives . From 1891 he was speaker of the house. In 1892 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress . Four years later he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the second district of Rhode Island , where he succeeded Warren O. Arnold on March 4, 1897 . After six re-elections, he was able to complete seven legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1911. In 1910 he renounced another candidacy. Capron died in Stillwater two weeks after retiring from Congress.

Web links

• Adin B. Capron in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Adin B. Capron in the database of Find a Grave (English)