Hiram Kinsman Evans

Hiram Kinsman Evans (born March 17, 1863 in Walnut Township , Wayne County , Iowa , †  July 9, 1941 in Corydon , Iowa) was an American politician . Between 1923 and 1925 he represented the state of Iowa in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Hiram Evans attended the public schools in his home country, creeping into high schools in Seymour and Allerton . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Iowa in Iowa City and his admission to the bar in 1886, he began to practice in his new profession in Holdrege ( Nebraska ). In 1887 he returned to Iowa, where he first settled in Seymour and then from 1889 in Corydon. There he worked as a lawyer. From 1891 to 1895 Evans was a district attorney in Wayne County.

Politically, Evans was a member of the Republican Party . He was a member of the House of Representatives from Iowa in 1896 and 1897 . Between 1897 and 1904 he served on the board of directors of the University of Iowa . He was also Mayor of Corydon Township from 1901 to 1903. Between 1904 and 1923 Evans was a judge in the Iowa Third Judicial District.

After the resignation of Congressman Horace Mann Towner , who had been appointed governor of Puerto Rico , Evans was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC as his party's candidate in the eighth constituency of Iowa in 1923 . There he took up his new mandate on June 4, 1923. Since he no longer ran in the regular congressional elections in 1924, he was only able to end the current legislative period of his predecessor until March 3, 1925.

After his tenure in the US House of Representatives, Evans returned to working as a lawyer in Corydon. Between 1927 and 1933 he was a member of the pardons committee of his home state. After that he did not hold any further political offices. Hiram Evans died on July 9, 1941 in his hometown of Corydon.

Web links

• Hiram Kinsman Evans in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Hiram Kinsman Evans in the database of Find a Grave (English)