Henry Poehler

Henry Poehler

Henry Poehler (born August 22, 1833 in Hiddesen , Lippe , †  July 18, 1912 in Henderson , Minnesota ) was an American politician . Between 1879 and 1881 he represented the state of Minnesota in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Henry Poehler, who was born on the territory of the German Confederation , was first taught by his father, who ran a school. In 1848 he emigrated to the United States. He first settled in Burlington ( Iowa down), where he attended public schools. He came to Henderson in the Minnesota Territory via Saint Paul in 1854 . There he was mainly active in the grain trade. Between 1856 and 1861 he was a post holder in his new hometown. It was then that he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party .

He was a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1857, 1858, and 1865 . Between 1865 and 1868 he was a member and chairman of the Sibley County District Council . From 1872 to 1873 and again between 1876 and 1877 Poehler was a member of the Minnesota Senate . In the congressional election of 1878 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of Minnesota , where he succeeded Republican Horace B. Strait on March 4, 1879 . Since he lost in the elections of 1880 to Strait, he could only serve one term in Congress until March 3, 1881 .

After his time in the US House of Representatives, Poehler applied unsuccessfully for the post of Treasury Secretary of Minnesota. But he was elected mayor of Henderson several times. In 1889 he moved to Minneapolis, where he continued to do business. His focus was on the grain trade. Poehler lived in Los Angeles from 1895 . He died on July 18, 1912 while visiting Henderson.

Web links

• Henry Poehler in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Henry Poehler in the database of Find a Grave (English)