Jasper Packard

Jasper Packard

Jasper Packard (born February 1, 1832 in Austintown , Ohio , †  December 13, 1899 in Lafayette , Indiana ) was an American politician . Between 1869 and 1875 he represented the state of Indiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1835, Jasper Packard came to Indiana with his parents, where he attended public schools. He later studied at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor until 1855 . He then worked for some time as a teacher and settled in La Porte (Indiana). After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1861, he began to work in this profession. During the civil war he served in the army of the Union , in which he rose from simple soldier to colonel and finally to brevet - brigadier general . Packard remained in the Army until April 10, 1866.

Between 1866 and 1869 he worked as an auditor in LaPorte County . Politically, Packard joined the Republican Party . In the congressional elections of 1868 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the eleventh constituency of Indiana , where he succeeded John Shanks on March 4, 1869 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1875 . The 15th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified there in 1870 . Between 1873 and 1875, Packard chaired the State Department's Expenditure Control Committee and the Private Land Claims Management Committee.

In 1874, Packard declined to run again. In the following years he worked in the newspaper business. On July 1, 1899, he was appointed head of the state soldiers' home in Lafayette. He held this office until his death on December 13, 1899.

Web links

• Jasper Packard in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Jasper Packard in the database of Find a Grave (English)