Augustus Brandegee

Augustus Brandegee

Augustus Brandegee (born July 15, 1828 in New London , Connecticut , †  November 10, 1904 there ) was an American politician . Between 1863 and 1867 he represented the third constituency of the state of Connecticut in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Augustus Brandegee attended Union Academy in New London and Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven . He then studied until 1851 at Yale College , including the subject of law. After being admitted to the bar in 1851, he began working with a partner in New London in his new profession. Politically, Brandegee joined the Republican Party, founded in 1854 . He was elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1854, 1858, 1859, and 1861 ; In 1861 he was its speaker .

Brandegee was a supporter of the Union during the Civil War . At the start of the war, he traveled through the state of Connecticut, recruiting soldiers for the Union Army and giving supportive speeches. In the congressional election of 1862, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third district of Connecticut . There he took over from Alfred A. Burnham on March 4, 1863 . After a re-election in 1864, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1867 . There he was temporarily a member of the naval and military committees and chairman of a special committee, the Committee on a Post and Military Route from New York to Washington . In 1866 Augustus Brandegee renounced another candidacy for Congress.

In June 1864, he took part as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Baltimore , at which President Abraham Lincoln was nominated for a second term. In 1866 he participated in the Assembly of the Union supporters in Philadelphia ( Loyalist Convention in part). Brandegee was Mayor of New London from 1871 to 1873. In the years 1880 and 1884 he was again a delegate to the respective Republican National Conventions, at which James A. Garfield and later James G. Blaine were nominated as the party's presidential candidate. In contrast to Garfield, Blaine's candidacy in 1884 was unsuccessful.

Brandegee returned to practice as a lawyer for the last 20 years of his life. In 1892 he co-founded Noyes & Brandegee , one of the largest joint law firms in New London. During this time he received offers from his party for further candidacies for higher state offices, all of which he rejected. Between 1897 and 1898 he was legal advisor to the City of New London on financial matters ( Corporation Counsel ). Augustus Brandegee died on November 10, 1904 in New London and was buried there. His son Frank (1864-1924) represented Connecticut in both chambers of Congress between 1901 and 1924.

Web links

• Augustus Brandegee in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Augustus Brandegee in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Augustus Brandegee at The Political Graveyard