Dwight Loomis

Dwight Loomis

Dwight Loomis (born July 27, 1821 in Columbia , Tolland County , Connecticut , †  September 17, 1903 in Waterbury , Connecticut) was an American politician . Between 1859 and 1863 he represented the first constituency of the state of Connecticut in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Dwight Loomis attended his home public schools as well as Monson Academy and Amherst Academy , both of which are based in Massachusetts . After that he taught himself as a teacher. After studying law at Harvard University's law school and being admitted to the bar in 1847, he began his new profession in Rockville .

In 1851 Loomis was elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives. Then he joined the newly formed Republican Party and was a delegate to their Republican National Convention in 1856, on which John Charles Frémont was nominated as the party's first presidential candidate; this was then defeated in the election of James Buchanan . Loomis served in the Connecticut Senate between 1857 and 1859 .

In the congressional elections of 1858 he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first district of Connecticut , where he succeeded Ezra Clark on March 4, 1859 . After being re-elected in 1860, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1863 , which were initially determined by the discussions leading up to the civil war and then by the events of the war itself. From 1859 to 1861 Loomis was chairman of the Treasury Department's Expenditure Control Committee. In 1862 he renounced another candidacy.

Between 1864 and 1875 Dwight Loomis worked as a judge of the Superior Court , and from 1875 to 1891 at the Supreme Court ( Supreme Court of his state). From 1892 he lived in Hartford. From 1892 until his death, Loomis was a state arbitrator. He died on September 17, 1903 in a railroad accident near Waterbury and was buried in Rockville.

Web links

• Dwight Loomis in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Dwight Loomis in the database of Find a Grave (English)