J. Hale Sypher

J. Hale Sypher

Jacob Hale Sypher (born June 22, 1837 in Millerstown , Perry County , Pennsylvania , †  May 9, 1905 in Baltimore , Maryland ) was an American politician . Between 1868 and 1875 he represented the state of Louisiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Hale Sypher attended Alfred University in New York State until 1859 . Then he worked in Cleveland ( Ohio ) as a teacher. During the civil war he rose from the army of the Union from simple soldier to colonel . After the war he bought a plantation in the northern part of the state of Louisiana. After a subsequent law degree and his admission to the bar, he began to work in his new profession in New Orleans .

Politically, Sypher became a member of the Republican Party . In 1868 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago , where Ulysses S. Grant was nominated as the party's presidential candidate. After the re-admission of the state of Louisiana in Congress , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the first constituency of Louisiana , where he took office on July 18, 1868. By March 3, 1869, he ended the current legislative period there. In the elections of 1868, the former MP Louis St. Martin was actually elected to the US House of Representatives. However, after an objection by Sypher, Congress declared these elections invalid. He won the special election that was then scheduled and was thus able to resume his previous mandate from November 7, 1870.

Sypher was elected one more time in 1872 . These elections were then challenged by the Democrat Effingham Lawrence . This challenge was granted on March 3, 1875, the last day of the current legislative period. Lawrence served as Congressman for a day. Overall, Sypher was a member of the US House of Representatives between 1868 and 1875, with one interruption in the years 1869 and 1870. During this time the 14th and 15th amendments to the constitution were passed there. While in Congress, Sypher temporarily chaired the Treasury Department's Expenditure Monitoring Committee.

In 1874 , Hale Sypher was not re-elected. That was when the reconstruction ended ; thus the Democrats in Louisiana won a majority. Sypher moved to the federal capital Washington and worked there as a lawyer. He died in Baltimore on May 9, 1905 and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Web links

• J. Hale Sypher in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• J. Hale Sypher in the database of Find a Grave (English)