Andrew Grant Chapman

Andrew Grant Chapman (born January 17, 1839 in La Plata , Charles County , Maryland , †  September 25, 1892 there ) was an American politician . Between 1881 and 1883 he represented the state of Maryland in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Andrew Chapman was the son of Congressman John Grant Chapman . He was first homeschooled and then attended Charlotte Hall Academy in Saint Mary's County . He then studied until 1858 at St. John's College in Annapolis . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and his admission to the bar in 1860, he began to work in this profession in Baltimore . In 1864 he moved his residence and his office to Port Tobacco Village , where he also worked in agriculture. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1867 and 1885 he sat several times in the Maryland House of Representatives . From 1874 he was a Brigadier General on the staff of Governors James Black Groome and John Lee Carroll .

In the congressional election of 1880 , Chapman was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fifth constituency of Maryland , where he succeeded Eli Jones Henkle on March 4, 1881 . Since he was not confirmed in 1882, he could only serve one term in Congress until March 3, 1883 . After his time in the US House of Representatives, Chapman practiced as a lawyer again. In 1885 he was first deputy and from 1889 actual head of the tax authority in Maryland. In June 1888 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in St. Louis , on which President Grover Cleveland was nominated for re-election, which was unsuccessful. Andrew Chapman died on September 25, 1892 on his Normandy estate near La Plata, where he was also buried.

Web links

• Andrew Grant Chapman in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Andrew Grant Chapman in the database of Find a Grave (English)