Jeremiah D. Botkin

Jeremiah D. Botkin

Jeremiah Dunham Botkin (born April 24, 1849 in Atlanta , Logan County , Illinois , †  December 29, 1921 in Liberal , Kansas ) was an American politician . Between 1897 and 1899 he represented the state of Kansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Jeremiah Botkin visited his home public schools and then for a year, the DePauw University in Greencastle ( Indiana ). After studying theology, he began to work as a clergyman in the Methodist Church in 1870 . In 1888 he ran unsuccessfully as a candidate for the Prohibition Movement for governor of Kansas. In 1894 he ran for the US Congress just as unsuccessfully . In 1897 Botkin was chaplain of the Kansas Senate . In the meantime he had become a member of the populist party that grew out of the farmers' movement .

In 1896, Botkin was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC for the eighth Kansas seat, elected state-wide . There he stepped on March 4, 1897 to succeed the Republican Richard W. Blue , whom he had defeated in the election. But since he was defeated by the Republican Willis Bailey in the election in 1898 , Botkin could only serve one term in Congress until March 3, 1899. This was determined by the events of the Spanish-American War .

After his time in Congress, Botkin returned to work as a clergyman. In 1908 he ran again unsuccessfully for governor of Kansas. Between 1913 and 1915 he was the head of the state prison in Lansing . Then he continued his spiritual career. Jeremiah Botkin died in Liberal in December 1921 and was buried in Winfield .

Web links

• Jeremiah D. Botkin in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Jeremiah D. Botkin in the database of Find a Grave (English)