Andrew J. Harlan

Andrew J. Harlan

Andrew Jackson Harlan (born March 29, 1815 in Wilmington , Ohio , †  May 19, 1907 in Savannah , Missouri ) was an American politician . Between 1849 and 1855 he twice represented the state of Indiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Andrew Harlan was a cousin of Congressman Aaron Harlan (1802–1868) from Ohio. He attended the public schools in his home country. After a subsequent law degree and his admission to the bar in 1839, he began to work in Richmond (Indiana) in this profession. In the same year he moved to Marion . In 1842 he became an administrator with the Indiana House of Representatives .

Politically, Harlan was a member of the Democratic Party at the time . Between 1846 and 1848 he was a member of the Indiana House of Representatives. In the congressional election of 1848 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the tenth constituency of his state , where he succeeded William Rockhill on March 4, 1849 . Until March 3, 1851, he was initially able to complete a legislative period in Congress . In 1852 he was re-elected to Congress in the then newly created eleventh district of Indiana, where he could spend another term between March 4, 1853 and March 3, 1855. During this time he was chairman of the Committee on Mileage . Because he spoke out against withdrawing the Missouri Compromise , he was expelled from his party.

In 1854, Harlan turned down a nomination for re-election as a candidate for the short-lived People's Party . He then became a member of the newly formed Republican Party . In 1861 he moved to the Dakota Territory ; there he became a member and president of the territorial House of Representatives. In September 1862 he was expelled from Dakota by the Indians during an Indian revolt. He then settled in Savannah, Missouri, where he practiced as a lawyer again. Harlan was a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from 1864 to 1868, and served as its president from 1866. He then moved to Wakeeney , Kansas . There he worked as a lawyer. Between 1890 and 1894 he was also a postman there . He then returned to Savannah, where he died on May 19, 1907.

Web links

• Andrew J. Harlan in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Andrew J. Harlan in the database of Find a Grave (English)