Erastus J. Turner

Erastus Johnson Turner (born December 26, 1846 in Lockport , Erie County , Pennsylvania , † February 10, 1933 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American politician . Between 1887 and 1891 he represented the state of Kansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Between 1859 and 1860 attended Erastus Turner college in Henry ( Illinois ). In 1860 he moved to Bloomfield , Iowa . In the final phase of the Civil War he was a soldier in an infantry regiment from Iowa from 1864 . After the war he continued his education from 1866 to 1866 at Adrian College in Michigan . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1871, he began working in his new profession in Bloomfield. In 1879 Turner moved to Hoxie , Sheridan County , Kansas, where he also practiced as a lawyer. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party . From 1881 to 1885, Erastus Turner was a member of the House of Representatives from Kansas . He was also from 1883 to 1886 Secretary of the Railway Committee of that state.

In the congressional elections of 1886 Turner was elected the sixth Congressman to the US House of Representatives in Washington state . There he took over from Lewis Hanback on March 4, 1887 . After a re-election in 1888, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1891 . In 1890 he declined to run again. After his tenure in Congress, Turner practiced law for a few years in the federal capital, Washington. In 1905 he moved to Seattle ( Washington ), where he also worked as a lawyer. In 1916, Erastus Turner retired, which he spent in Los Angeles, where he also died in 1933.

Web links

• Erastus J. Turner in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Erastus J. Turner in the database of Find a Grave (English)