Augustus C. Baldwin

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Augustus Carpenter Baldwin (born December 24, 1817 in Syracuse , New York , †  January 21, 1903 in Pontiac , Michigan ) was an American politician . Between 1863 and 1865 he represented the state of Michigan in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Augustus Baldwin attended the public schools in his homeland. In 1837 he moved to Oakland County , Michigan, where he initially worked as a teacher. After studying law and his admission as a lawyer in 1842, he began to work in Milford in his new profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . From 1844 to 1846 he was a member of the Michigan House of Representatives , and he became president in 1846. In 1849 Baldwin moved to Pontiac. From 1853 to 1854 he was a district attorney in Oakland County. In 1860 he took part as a delegate to both Democratic National Conventions , held in Charleston and Baltimore .

In the congressional election of 1862 , Baldwin was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the then newly created fifth constituency of Michigan , where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1863. Since he was defeated by Republican Rowland E. Trowbridge in the following elections in 1864 , he could only serve one term in Congress until March 3, 1865 , which was marked by the events of the Civil War . Baldwin appealed unsuccessfully to the election of Trowbridge.

In 1864 Baldwin was a delegate to the Democratic Federal Convention in Chicago and in 1866 to the National Union Convention in Philadelphia . Between 1868 and 1886 he was a member of the school committee of the city of Pontiac, whose mayor he became in 1874. From 1875 to 1880 he was a judge in the Sixth Judicial District of Michigan. He then practiced again as a private lawyer. Augustus Baldwin also served on the Board of Trustees of the State Mental Hospital for Eastern Michigan. He died on January 21, 1903 in Pontiac, where he was buried.

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SURNAME Baldwin, Augustus C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baldwin, Augustus Carpenter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Syracuse , New York
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1903
Place of death Pontiac , Michigan