Cyrus A. Sulloway

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Cyrus A. Sulloway

Cyrus Adams Sulloway (born June 8, 1839 in Grafton , Grafton County , New Hampshire , † March 11, 1917 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1895 and 1913 and from 1915 to 1917 he represented the state of New Hampshire in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Cyrus Sulloway attended the public schools of his home country, the Colby Academy and then the Kimball Academy . After studying law in Franklin and being admitted to the bar in 1863, he began working in his new profession in Manchester .

Sulloway was a member of the Republican Party . He was elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1872 and 1873 . Between 1887 and 1893 he was again a member of this chamber. In 1894 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the first district of New Hampshire, where he succeeded Henry W. Blair on March 4, 1895 . After eight re-elections, he was able to complete nine consecutive terms in Congress by March 3, 1913 . During this time the Spanish-American War and the annexation of some areas such as the Philippines and some Pacific islands to the United States took place. The former Kingdom of Hawaii also came under American administration in 1898. Between 1897 and 1899 Sulloway was chairman of the Justice Department's Expenditure Control Committee, and from 1899 to 1913 he sat on the Disability Pension Committee.

In the 1912 election he was defeated by the Democrat Eugene Elliott Reed . Two years later, Sulloway managed to regain his parliamentary seat: in the 1916 elections, he was re-elected to Congress. This allowed him to remain in the US House of Representatives from March 4, 1915 until his death on March 11, 1917. At the time of his death, the United States was about to join the First World War . Sulloway's mandate fell to Sherman Everett Burroughs after a by-election .

Web links

  • Cyrus A. Sulloway in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
personal data
SURNAME Sulloway, Cyrus A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sulloway, Cyrus Adams (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Grafton , New Hampshire
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1917
Place of death Washington, DC