George Vickers

George Vickers

George Vickers (* 19th November 1801 in Chestertown , Kent County , Maryland , †  8. October 1879 ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party , of the State of Maryland in the US Senate represented.

After graduating from school, Vickers was employed by the County Clerk in Kent County for a few years . He later studied law , was admitted to the bar in 1832 and began practicing law in his hometown. During the American Civil War, he held the rank of major general in the Maryland State Militia.

In 1864, Vickers represented the Democratic Party in Electoral College , which Abraham Lincoln re-elected as US President. Two years later, he was Vice President of the National Union Convention in Philadelphia . Their goal was to overcome the consequences of the civil war and to bring the two warring parts of the country closer together again; however, this did not succeed.

George Vickers was a member of the Maryland Senate between 1866 and 1867 . In 1868 he was elected US Senator, succeeding Philip F. Thomas . The Senate refused to exercise his mandate. Vickers remained in Congress from March 7, 1868 to March 3, 1873 ; he then worked again as a lawyer in Chestertown, where he died in 1879.

Web links

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