Ira Allen Eastman

Ira Allen Eastman

Ira Allen Eastman (born January 1, 1809 in Gilmanton , Belknap County , New Hampshire , †  March 21, 1881 in Manchester , New Hampshire) was an American politician . Between 1839 and 1843 he represented the state of New Hampshire in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Ira Eastman was the nephew of Nehemiah Eastman (1782-1856), who was between 1825 and 1827 Congressman for the state of New Hampshire. The younger Eastman attended the public schools of his homeland and then until 1829 Dartmouth College in Hanover . After completing a law degree and being admitted to the bar in 1832, he began to practice his new profession in Troy . There he married Jane Quackenbush on February 20, 1833. In the spring of 1834 he returned to Gilmanton, where he also worked as a lawyer. In 1835 he was an administrator in the New Hampshire House of Representatives .

Eastman was a member of the Democratic Party founded by Andrew Jackson . Between 1836 and 1838 he was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives and since 1837 its president. From 1836 to 1839 he worked as an administrative clerk at a probate court. In the congressional elections of 1838, which were held nationwide, Eastman was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC for the fourth mandate from New Hampshire . There he took over from Samuel Cushman on March 4, 1839 . After re-election in 1840, he was able to complete two consecutive terms in Congress until March 3, 1843 . From 1841 he was chairman of the Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business . In 1842 Eastman declined to run again.

After serving in the House of Representatives, Ira Eastman became a judge. Between 1844 and 1849 he served in that capacity on the New Hampshire Court of Appeals. He was then an associate judge on the Supreme Court of his state between 1849 and 1855. Between 1855 and 1859 Eastman was presiding judge in the Superior Judical Court of New Hampshire. Since 1859 he was also the curator of Dartmouth College. In 1863 he ran unsuccessfully against Joseph A. Gilmore for governor of New Hampshire. In 1866 he also failed when he ran for the US Senate . Otherwise, Ira Eastman worked as a lawyer. He died in Manchester on March 21, 1881.

literature

• Andrew R. Dodge: Biographical directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005 . ( the Continental Congress, Sept. 5, 1774 to Oct. 21, 1788, and the Congress of the United States from the First through the One Hundred Eighth Congresses, March 4, 1789 to Jan. 3, 2005 inclusive ), Washington DC 2005 , P. 998.

Web links

• Ira Allen Eastman in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Ira Allen Eastman in the database of Find a Grave (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Daniel Lancaster: The history of Gilmanton, embracing the proprietary, civil, literary, ecclesiastical, biographical, genealogical, and miscellaneous history, from the first settlement to the present time; including what is now Gilford, to the time it was disannexed. A. Prescott, Gilmanton 1845, p. 225.