Henry Smith Van Eaton

Henry Smith Van Eaton (born September 14, 1826 in Anderson Township , Hamilton County , Ohio , † May 30, 1898 in Woodville , Mississippi ) was an American politician . Between 1883 and 1887 he represented the state of Mississippi in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Henry Van Eaton attended Illinois College in Jacksonville until 1848 . In 1848 he moved to Woodville, Mississippi, where he worked as a teacher. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1855, he began his new profession in Woodville. Van Eaton was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1857 he became a district attorney in Wilkinson County . In 1859 he was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives. Despite his origins in the northern state of Ohio, Van Eaton was a soldier in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War . After the war he worked as a lawyer in Woodville again. In 1880 he became chancellor of the Mississippi Tenth District.

In 1882 Van Eaton was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the fifth constituency of Mississippi , where he succeeded Charles E. Hooker on March 4, 1883 . After a re-election in 1884, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1887 . After the end of his time in Congress, Van Eaton was established in 1887 by President Grover Cleveland in the Board of Visitors of the US Naval Academy in Annapolis ( Maryland ) called. In 1888 he was also a member of a commission that oversaw the final phase of the Northern Pacific Railroad's expansion . Henry Van Eaton died in Woodville in 1898 and was buried there.

Web links

• Henry Smith Van Eaton in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Henry Smith Van Eaton in the database of Find a Grave (English)