Evarts Worcester Farr

Evarts Worcester Farr

Evarts Worcester Farr (born October 10, 1840 in Littleton , New Hampshire , †  November 30, 1880 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1879 and 1880 he represented the state of New Hampshire in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Evarts Farr attended public schools in his home country and then Dartmouth College in Hanover . During the Civil War he was an officer in the Union Army . In the course of the war he made it to major in an infantry regiment from New Hampshire.

After the war, Farr worked for the tax authority between 1865 and 1873. After studying law and his admission as a lawyer in 1867, he began to practice in Littleton in addition to his work at the tax office in his new profession. Between 1873 and 1879 he was a district attorney in Grafton County . In 1876 Farr was also a member of the New Hampshire Executive Council .

Farr was a member of the Republican Party and was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in 1878 as its candidate in the third district of New Hampshire . There he took over from Henry W. Blair on March 4, 1879 . Farr could not exercise his mandate in Congress until the scheduled end of the legislature on March 3, 1881, because he died on November 30, 1880. His mandate went to a by-election to Ossian Ray , who was also the last congressman in the third district, because this district was dissolved at the end of the legislative period of the 47th Congress on March 3, 1883.

Web links

• Evarts Worcester Farr in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Evarts Worcester Farr in the database of Find a Grave (English)