Hosea Townsend

Hosea Townsend

Hosea Townsend (* 16th June 1840 in Greenwich , Huron County , Ohio , † 4. March 1909 in Ardmore , Oklahoma ) was an American politician of the Republican Party . Between 1889 and 1893 he represented the first constituency of the state of Colorado in the US House of Representatives .

Career

After elementary school, Hosea Townsend attended Western Reserve College in Cleveland . Until 1863 he took part in the American Civil War as a lieutenant in a volunteer unit from Ohio ; then he had to quit military service because of an injury. After studying law and being admitted to the bar, he began to work in this profession from 1865 in Memphis ( Tennessee ). In 1869 he was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives.

Townsend moved to Colorado in 1879. From 1881 he lived in the place Silver Cliff . Politically, he became a member of the Republican Party. In the 1888 congressional elections, he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in what was then the only constituency of Colorado that included the entire state . There he replaced George G. Symes on March 4, 1889 . After a re-election in 1890, he was able to exercise his mandate in Congress until March 3, 1893. In 1892 Townsend was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis .

After he was no longer nominated for the elections in 1892 by his party, he had to leave Congress in March 1893. Between 1897 and 1907 Townsend was a federal judge in the southern part of the Indian Territory , which stretched in the southwest of the United States in the area of ​​the present-day states of New Mexico , Arizona and Oklahoma. He died in Ardmore on March 4, 1909 and was buried in Norwalk , Ohio.

Web links

• Hosea Townsend in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Hosea Townsend in the database of Find a Grave (English)