Francis B. Posey

Francis Blackburn Posey (born April 28, 1848 in Petersburg , Pike County , Indiana , †  October 31, 1915 in Rockport , Indiana) was an American politician . Between January and March 1889 he represented the state of Indiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Francis Posey attended his homeland public schools and Blythewood Academy . He then studied at Indiana Asbury University , now DePauw University in Greencastle . After a subsequent law degree at Indiana University in Bloomington and his admission as a lawyer in 1869, he began to work in his new profession in Petersburg.

Politically, Posey was a member of the Republican Party . In 1884 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago , where James G. Blaine was nominated as a presidential candidate. In 1888 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress . After the resignation of MP Alvin Peterson Hovey , he was elected as its successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , at the by-election due for the first seat of Indiana , where he took up his new mandate on January 29, 1889. By March 3rd of the same year he ended the current legislative period there.

After leaving the US House of Representatives, Posey practiced as a lawyer again. Between 1903 and 1913 he headed the port administration in Evansville . He died in Rockport on October 31, 1915 and was buried in Petersburg.

Web links

• Francis B. Posey in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Francis B. Posey in the database of Find a Grave (English)