Ira Sherwin Hazeltine

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Ira Sherwin Hazeltine

Ira Sherwin Hazeltine (born July 13, 1821 in Andover , Windsor County , Vermont , †  January 13, 1899 in Springfield , Missouri ) was an American politician . Between 1881 and 1883 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Ira Hazeltine attended public schools in his home country. In 1842 he moved to the Richland Center in Wisconsin . He then taught for three years as a teacher in Natchez , Mississippi . After studying law and admission to the bar, he began practicing the profession at Richland Center. Politically, Hazeltine initially joined the Republican Party . In 1860 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago , where Abraham Lincoln was nominated as a presidential candidate. Hazeltine was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1867 to 1869 . From 1870 he worked in agriculture near Springfield.

It was then that Hazeltine joined the short-lived Greenback Party . In the congressional elections of 1880 he was elected as their candidate in the sixth constituency of Missouri to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded James Richard Waddill on March 4, 1881 . Since he was not confirmed in 1882, he could only serve one term in Congress until March 3, 1883 . After leaving the US House of Representatives, Ira Hazeltine went back to his previous activities. He died near Springfield on January 13, 1899.

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SURNAME Hazeltine, Ira Sherwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Andover , Vermont
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1899
Place of death near Springfield , Missouri