Israel G. Lash

Israel G. Lash

Israel George Lash (born August 18, 1810 in Bethania , North Carolina , †  April 1, 1878 in Winston-Salem , North Carolina) was an American politician . Between 1868 and 1871 he represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Israel Lash attended the public schools in his home country and then worked in and in the banking industry. He then became a cigar maker. After the Civil War he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party . In 1868 he was a delegate to a meeting to revise the state constitution.

After North Carolina was readmitted to the Union, Lash was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of his state , where he took up his new mandate on July 20, 1868. After being re-elected, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1871 . There he experienced the dispute between his party and President Andrew Johnson at the beginning of his term in office .

In 1870 Israel Lash declined to run again. In the following years, up to his death on April 1, 1878, he worked in Winston-Salem in the banking industry.

Web links

• Israel G. Lash in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Israel G. Lash in the database of Find a Grave (English)