James W. McDill

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James W. McDill

James Wilson McDill (born March 4, 1834 in Monroe , Ohio , †  February 28, 1894 in Creston , Iowa ) was an American politician ( Republican Party ). He represented the state of Iowa in both houses of Congress .

After attending public schools, James McDill first continued his education at Hanover College and South Salem Academy before graduating from Miami University in Oxford in 1853 . He initially worked as a lecturer in Kossuth (Iowa) before studying law at Samuel Galloway's law firm in Columbus . McDill was inducted into the bar in 1856, after which he moved to Afton , Iowa to practice law.

From 1859 he held a post in the county government of Union County ; the following year he was elected judge there. From 1862 to 1865 he served as an officer in the US Treasury Department in Washington, DC before he left this post and returned to Iowa. There he served as a judge in the District Court and in the 3rd District Court of Iowa.

On March 4, 1873, James McDill moved to the House of Representatives of the United States after a successful election , where he remained until March 3, 1877. During this time he was a member of the Committees for the Railways to the Pacific and for the Public Land. He did not stand for re-election in 1876; instead he went back to work as a lawyer in Afton. From 1878 to 1881 he was a member of the Iowa Railroad Inspectorate. He left this office after he had been appointed as the successor to the US Senator Samuel Jordan Kirkwood , who had been appointed as Minister of the Interior in the federal cabinet. He took up his mandate in the Senate from March 8, 1881, decided the by-election for himself and thus remained in Congress until March 3, 1883.

From 1885 he was again working as a lawyer in Creston (Iowa). On January 5, 1892, US President Benjamin Harrison nominated him to succeed Thomas M. Cooley in the Interstate Commerce Commission for a remaining term until December 31, 1892. He took office after confirmation by the US Senate on January 13, 1892 January 1892. The term of office was extended to December 31, 1898 by renewed confirmation by the Senate on December 15, 1892. He died of typhus on February 28, 1894 . He was succeeded by James D. Yeomans .

Web links

  • James W. McDill in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
  • James W. McDill in the database of Find a Grave (English)
  • Clarence Altha Miller: The lives of the Interstate Commerce Commissioners and the Commission's secretaries. Washington 1946 ( hathitrust.org [accessed June 21, 2019]).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 1 Mar 1894, 5 - The St. Joseph Herald at Newspapers.com. Retrieved June 21, 2019 .