Gustavus A. Finkelnburg

Gustavus Adolphus Finkelnburg (born April 6, 1837 in Rösrath -Venauen near Cologne , † May 18, 1908 in Denver , Colorado ) was an American lawyer and politician of German origin. Between 1869 and 1873 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In the revolutionary year of 1848 , Gustav Finkelnburg emigrated to America with his mother and some brothers, the father and one brother ( Carl Maria ) wanted to come later. The family settled in Saint Charles, Missouri, where he attended college. His mother and a brother returned to Germany after a few years. After a subsequent law degree at the Cincinnati Law School in Ohio and his license to practice law in 1860, he began to work in this profession in St. Louis . During the civil war he served in the Union army .

Politically, Finkelnburg joined the Republican Party . Between 1864 and 1868 he was a member of the Missouri House of Representatives , of which he was President in 1868. In the congressional elections of 1868 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of Missouri , where he succeeded Carman A. Newcomb on March 4, 1869 . After re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1873 . Since 1871 he represented the short-lived Liberal Republican Party , which opposed the radical Republicans and wanted to prevent the re-election of President Ulysses S. Grant .

After leaving the US House of Representatives, Finkelnburg withdrew from politics. In 1905, he succeeded Elmer Bragg Adams as a federal judge in the federal district court for the eastern part of Missouri. He held this office until his resignation on March 31, 1907. Gustavus Finkelnburg died on May 18, 1908 in Denver and was buried in St. Louis.

Web links

Gustavus A. Finkelnburg in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
Gustavus A. Finkelnburg in the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges

Gustavus A. Finkelnburg in the Find a Grave database(English)

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^ Willi Paul Adams : Ethnic Leadership and the German-born Members of the US House of Representatives, 1862-1945. A Report on Research in Progress (= John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies. Working Paper. No. 88, ISSN 0948-9436 ). Free University, Berlin 1996, p. 26.

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SURNAME	Finkelnburg, Gustavus A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Finkelnburg, Gustavus Adolphus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American lawyer and politician of German origin
DATE OF BIRTH	April 6, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rösrath -Venauen near Cologne
DATE OF DEATH	May 18, 1908
Place of death	Denver , Colorado

[1] Willi Paul Adams : Ethnic Leadership and the German-born Members of the US House of Representatives, 1862-1945. A Report on Research in Progress (= John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies. Working Paper. No. 88, ISSN 0948-9436 ). Free University, Berlin 1996, p. 26.