James M. Hinds

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James M. Hinds

James M. Hinds (born December 5, 1833 in Salem , New York , †  October 22, 1868 in Indian Bay , Arkansas ) was an American politician . Between June and October 1868 he represented the second constituency of the state of Arkansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

James Hinds attended the public schools in his home country and the State Normal School in Albany . After that he began in St. Louis ( Missouri law school, which he in 1856 on) Cincinnati Law College ended. After qualifying as a lawyer, he began in St. Peter ( Minnesota to work in his new job). In Minnesota, he served as a district attorney for three years before serving as the federal attorney for the Minnesota District. In 1862 he took part in an Indian campaign on the side of the former governor Henry Hastings Sibley .

Although Hinds was a member of the Democratic Party at the time, he became a supporter of Republican President Abraham Lincoln . After the Civil War ended , Hinds moved to Little Rock , Arkansas, where he worked as a lawyer. In the meantime he had converted to the Republican Party. In 1867 he was a delegate to a meeting to revise the Arkansas constitution. He was also responsible for the codification of the new state laws.

After the state of Arkansas was re-admitted to the Union, Hinds was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second district of Arkansas . On June 22, 1868, he took the seat of his constituency, which had been orphaned since 1861 and was last held by Albert Rust . Hinds could only exercise his mandate in Congress for four months. On October 22nd, he was assassinated by a Democratic party official named George A. Clark, who was a member of the Ku Klux Klan . This made him one of the clan's first prominent murder victims in Arkansas. His congressional mandate went to James T. Elliott after a by-election .

Web links

  • James M. Hinds in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
personal data
SURNAME Hinds, James M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH near Salem , New York
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1868
Place of death at Indian Bay , Arkansas