Elijah Hise

Elijah Hise

Elijah Hise (born July 4, 1802 in Allegheny County , Pennsylvania , † May 8, 1867 in Russellville , Kentucky ) was an American politician . Between 1866 and 1867 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

While he was still a child, Elijah Hise came to Russellville, Kentucky with his parents, where he attended public schools. He then studied at Transylvania University in Lexington . After studying law and being admitted to the bar, he began to work in this profession. Politically, Hise became a member of the Democratic Party . In 1829 he was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives. In 1836 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky. In 1848 and 1849 he was the successor to Charles G. DeWitt as the American envoy to Guatemala . He also served as the presiding judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals.

After the death of MP Henry Grider in 1866, Hise was elected in the third constituency of Kentucky as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he took up his new mandate on December 3, 1866. Since he was confirmed in the regular elections of 1866, he was able to start a new legislative term in Congress on March 4, 1867 . He remained there until his death on May 8, 1867. Since 1865, the work of Congress was marked by tensions between the Republican Party and President Andrew Johnson , which culminated in a narrowly unsuccessful impeachment process.

Web links

• Elijah Hise in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Elijah Hise in the database of Find a Grave (English)