Charles Billinghurst

Charles Billinghurst

Charles Billinghurst (born July 27, 1818 in Brighton , Franklin County , New York , †  August 18, 1865 in Juneau , Wisconsin ) was an American politician . Between 1855 and 1859 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Charles Billinghurst attended public schools in his home country. After completing a law degree and being admitted to the bar in 1847, he began working in his new profession in Rochester . In the same year he moved to Juneau, Wisconsin Territory , where he also practiced as a lawyer. Politically, Billinghurst then became a member of the Democratic Party . After Wisconsin was admitted to the Union, he was elected to the State Assembly in 1848. In the 1852 presidential election , he was one of the Democratic electors who officially elected Franklin Pierce president. Then he turned away from the Democratic Party and joined the opposition party . He later became a member of the Republican Party founded in 1854 .

In the congressional election of 1854 he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of Wisconsin , where he succeeded John B. Macy on March 3, 1855 . After a re-election in 1856, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1859 . These were shaped by the discussions leading up to the civil war . In the elections of 1858 Billinghurst was defeated by the Democrat Charles H. Larrabee .

In the years that followed, until his death in August 1865, Charles Billinghurst practiced law again.

Web links

• Charles Billinghurst in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)