Chester Bidwell Darrall

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Chester Bidwell Darrall

Chester Bidwell Darrall (born June 24, 1842 in Addison , Somerset County , Pennsylvania , †  January 1, 1908 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1869 and 1878 and again from 1881 to 1883 he represented the state of Louisiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Chester Darrall attended the common schools and then studied at the Medical College in Albany in the state of New York Medicine. During the Civil War he served as a doctor in a unit out of New York State. He remained in the army until 1867. At the time of his retirement from the military, he was stationed in Louisiana. He stayed in that state and worked in what is now Morgan City in trade and as a planter .

In his new home, Darrall began a political career as a member of the Republican Party . In 1868 he was a member of the Louisiana Senate . In 1872 and 1876 he was a delegate to the respective Republican National Conventions , at which Ulysses S. Grant and later Rutherford B. Hayes were nominated as presidential candidates. In the congressional election of 1868 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the third constituency of Louisiana, where he succeeded Joseph P. Newsham on March 4, 1869 . After three re-elections, he could remain in Congress until February 20, 1878 . On that day he had to resign his mandate to Joseph H. Acklen of the Democratic Party , who had successfully challenged the election of 1876. In 1878, Chester Darrall renounced another congressional candidacy. During its first tenure with the US House of Representatives, the 14th Amendment to the Constitution was passed there in 1870 .

In 1880 Darrall was again elected to Congress in the third district. There he replaced Joseph Acklen on March 4, 1881. By March 3, 1883, he completed another legislative period in the House of Representatives. In 1882, however, it was not confirmed. Between 1883 and 1885 he was head of the Land Office in New Orleans . He was also involved in the cultivation of sugar cane. In 1888 he competed unsuccessfully to return to Congress. He later moved to the federal capital Washington, where he died on January 1, 1908.

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SURNAME Darrall, Chester Bidwell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH near Addison , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1908
Place of death Washington, DC