George Helm Yeaman

George Helm Yeaman (1865)

George Helm Yeaman (born November 1, 1829 in Hardin County , Kentucky , † February 23, 1908 in Jersey City , New Jersey ) was an American politician . Between 1862 and 1865 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives . From 1865 to 1870 he was the American envoy to Denmark .

Career

George Yeaman attended elementary school and then studied law. After his admission to the bar in 1852, he began to work in Owensboro in this profession. In 1854 he became a judge in Daviess County . In 1861 he was elected a Unionist to the Kentucky House of Representatives. After the resignation of MP James Streshly Jackson , Yeaman was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of Kentucky , where he took up his new mandate on December 1, 1862. By March 3, 1863, Yeaman ended his predecessor's term of office. He was then able to spend a full term in Congress after being re-elected until March 3, 1865 . This was shaped by the events of the civil war .

In the congressional election of 1864 Yeaman lost to Burwell C. Ritter of the Democratic Party . After leaving the US House of Representatives, he was appointed American envoy to Denmark, where he succeeded Samuel Jordan Kirkwood . He held this office until 1870. On his return to the United States, he settled in New York City . There he lectured in law at Columbia College . Yeaman also became President of the Medico-Legal Society of New York . He died in Jersey City on February 23, 1908.

In the biopic Lincoln (2012) by Steven Spielberg he was portrayed by Michael Stuhlbarg .

Web links

• George Helm Yeaman in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• George Helm Yeaman in the database of Find a Grave (English)