Harrison Kelley

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Harrison Kelley (born May 12, 1836 in Montgomery Township , Wood County , Ohio , † July 24, 1897 in Burlington , Kansas ) was an American politician . Between 1889 and 1891 he represented the fourth constituency of the state of Kansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Harrison Kelley attended his homeland public schools and moved to Coffey County , Kansas , in March 1858 . During the Civil War , he volunteered in a Kansas cavalry unit . There he made it to the captain. After the war he became a brigadier general in the state militia.

Kelley was a member of the Republican Party . Between 1868 and 1870 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Kansas . He also headed the state penal institution between 1868 and 1873. In 1877 and 1878, Kelley worked for the Land Authority in Topeka . He was then a member of the Kansas Senate from 1880 to 1884 . Kelley was also the deputy head of the Internal Revenue and chairman of a committee that dealt with the sanitary issues in ranching. In 1889, he was a treasurer of the Kansas Welfare Committee.

After the resignation of Congressman Thomas Ryan , Kelley was elected his successor in the US House of Representatives in the state-wide by-election held in 1889. There he ended the legislative period of his predecessor between December 2, 1889 and March 3, 1891. Then he withdrew from politics. Harrison Kelley died in Burlington in July 1897 and was buried there.

Web links

  • Harrison Kelley in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)