George Wurtz Hughes

George Wurtz Hughes

George Wurtz Hughes (born September 30, 1806 in Elmira , New York , †  September 3, 1870 in West River , Maryland ) was an American politician . Between 1859 and 1861 he represented the state of Maryland in the US House of Representatives .

Career

George Hughes attended the public schools of his home country and then studied until 1827 at the US Military Academy at West Point . He then worked in the civil construction industry in New York City until 1838 . He then returned to the US Army as a captain . There he was initially employed as a topographic engineer in land surveying. He later took part in the Mexican-American War , in the course of which he rose to lieutenant colonel. In the meantime he was a colonel in a volunteer unit. He remained in the army as a lieutenant colonel until 1851. He then became president of the Northern Central Railroad .

Politically, Hughes became a member of the Democratic Party . In the congressional election of 1858 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth constituency of Maryland , where he succeeded Thomas Fielder Bowie on March 4, 1859 . Until March 3, 1861 he was able to complete a legislative period in Congress . This was shaped by the events in the immediate run-up to the civil war .

After his time in the US House of Representatives, Hughes worked as a construction consultant and planter in West River, where he died on September 3, 1870.

Web links

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

• George Wurtz Hughes in the database of Find a Grave (English)