Bishop W. Perkins

Bishop W. Perkins

Bishop Walden Perkins (* 18th October 1841 in Rochester , Lorain County , Ohio ; †  20th June 1894 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician ( Republican Party ), of the state of Kansas in both houses of the US Congress took .

After attending public schools Bishop Perkins continued his education at the Knox College in Galesburg ( Illinois ) continue. As a result, he worked as a gold prospector in California and New Mexico , before he joined the Union Army during the Civil War and rose to captain there . He studied after the war in Ottawa the law , was admitted to the bar in 1867 and began in Princeton to practice.

Perkins later moved to Kansas, where he settled in Oswego and continued to work as a lawyer. He served as a lawyer with the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad for two years ; In 1869 he became a district attorney in Labette County . From 1870 to 1882 he acted there as a debt restructuring judge; During this time he was also the editor of the Oswego Register .

On March 4, 1883, Bishop Perkins moved as a member of the House of Representatives of the United States , where he remained after three re-election until March 3, 1891, before he was defeated by the populist Benjamin H. Clover in his fifth candidacy . On January 1, 1892, he was appointed to succeed the late US Senator Preston B. Plumb . He exercised this mandate until March 3, 1893, when he was replaced by John Martin , who was victorious in the by-election . Then Perkins worked again as a lawyer in Washington, where he died the following year.

Web links

• Bishop W. Perkins in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Bishop W. Perkins in the database of Find a Grave (English)