Hugh A. Dinsmore

Hugh A. Dinsmore (1896)

Hugh Anderson Dinsmore (born December 24, 1850 in Cave Springs , Benton County , Arkansas , † May 2, 1930 in St. Louis , Missouri ) was an American politician . Between 1893 and 1903 he represented the fifth and from 1903 to 1905 the third constituency of the state of Arkansas in the US House of Representatives . He was also envoy to Korea from 1887 to 1890 .

Career

Hugh Dinsmore was educated in private schools in his Arkansas homeland. In 1873 he became a bailiff in Benton County. After studying law in Bentonville and being admitted to the bar, he began working in his new profession in Fayetteville in 1875 . Between 1878 and 1884, Dinsmore was a district attorney in the Arkansas fourth judicial district.

Dinsmore was a member of the Democratic Party . In January 1887 he was appointed American envoy to Korea by President Grover Cleveland . There he represented the interests of the United States until 1890. In the congressional elections of 1892 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth district of Arkansas , where he replaced Samuel W. Peel on March 4, 1893 . After he was re-elected in the following elections, he was able to complete a total of six legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1905 . In his last term of office between 1903 and 1905 he represented the third electoral district as the successor to Thomas Chipman McRae . For the elections of 1905 Dinsmore was no longer nominated by his party.

After serving in Congress, Dinsmore returned to Fayetteville as a lawyer. Later he devoted himself more and more to agriculture. Hugh Dinsmore also served on the University of Arkansas Board of Trustees . He died on May 2, 1930 in St. Louis and was buried in Fayetteville.

Web links

• Hugh A. Dinsmore in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Hugh A. Dinsmore in the database of Find a Grave (English)