Benjamin A. Enloe

Benjamin A. Enloe

Benjamin Augustine Enloe (born January 18, 1848 in Clarksburg , Carroll County , Tennessee , †  July 8, 1922 in Nashville , Tennessee) was an American politician . Between 1887 and 1895 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Benjamin Enloe attended public schools in his home country and then Bethel College in McKenzie . He then studied at Cumberland University in Lebanon . During his studies at the university, he was in the years 1869 and 1870 as a member of the Democratic Party in the Tennessee House of Representatives voted. After studying law at the same university and being admitted to the bar in 1873, he began to work in Jackson in his new profession. In 1872 and 1880 Enloe was a delegate to the respective Democratic National Conventions . In 1878 he was a member of a commission aimed at reducing Tennessee's national debt. From 1878 to 1880 Enloe was a member of the government council of his home state ( State executive committee ). Between 1874 and 1886 he published the Jackson Tribune and Sun newspaper.

In the congressional elections of 1886 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the eighth constituency of Tennessee , where he succeeded John May Taylor on March 4, 1887 . After three re-elections, he was able to complete four legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1895 . From 1891 to 1895 he was chairman of the education committee. In the 1894 election, Enloe was defeated by Republican John E. McCall . After leaving the US House of Representatives, he worked in the newspaper industry in Tennessee and Kentucky . In 1903 he was in Tennessee on the organizing committee for the World's Fair in St. Louis . Benjamin Enloe was his state's railway commissioner from 1904 until his death in 1922.

Web links

• Benjamin A. Enloe in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Benjamin A. Enloe in the database of Find a Grave (English)