George Washington Julian

George Washington Julian

George Washington Julian (born May 5, 1817 in Centerville , Wayne County , Indiana , †  July 7, 1899 in Indianapolis , Indiana) was an American politician . Between 1849 and 1871 he represented the state of Indiana in the US House of Representatives several times .

Career

George Julian attended the public schools in his homeland. After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1840, he began to work in Greenfield in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career. In 1845 he was elected to the Indiana House of Representatives. At that time he was a member of the short-lived Free Soil Party . In 1848 he was a delegate at their federal party congress. In the congressional election of 1848 Julian was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth constituency of Indiana , where he succeeded Caleb Blood Smith on March 4, 1849 . Since he was not confirmed in 1850, he was initially only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1851 . In the 1852 presidential election , George Julian was his party's vice-presidential candidate alongside John P. Hale . They achieved a share of the vote of 4.9 percent, but remained without electors in the Electoral College .

After the dissolution of his party, Julian became a member of the Republican Party founded in 1854 , whose first Republican National Convention he attended as a delegate in 1856. There John C. Frémont was nominated as the first presidential candidate. In the congressional elections of 1860 , Julian was re-elected to Congress as the successor to David Kilgore in the fifth district of his state. After four re-elections, he was able to spend five more terms in the US House of Representatives until March 3, 1871. Since 1869 he again represented the fourth electoral district there. This time was shaped by the events of the civil war and its consequences. Since 1865 the conflict between Julian's Republican Party and President Andrew Johnson weighed on the work of Congress. Between 1863 and 1871, George Julian was chairman of the Public Property Management Committee. From 1865 to 1867 he also headed the Department of Navy's Expenditures Control Committee.

Between 1885 and 1889, Julian was in charge of land surveying in the New Mexico Territory . He then returned to Indiana, where he settled in Irvington , a suburb of Indianapolis. There he dealt with literary matters. George Julian died in Indianapolis on July 7, 1899.

Web links

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

• George Washington Julian in the database of Find a Grave (English)