John A. Peters (politician, 1864)

John A. Peters

John Andrew Peters (born August 13, 1864 in Ellsworth , Maine , †  August 22, 1953 ibid) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1913 and 1922 he represented the state of Maine in the US House of Representatives . He then became a federal judge in the Federal District Court for the District of Maine.

Career

John Peters was a nephew of the same name John A. Peters (1822-1904), who also represented the state of Maine in Congress between 1867 and 1873 . The younger Peters attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1885 Bowdoin College in Brunswick . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1887, he began to practice in Ellsworth in this profession. From 1896 to 1908, Peters was a town judge in Ellsworth.

Politically, Peters was a member of the Republican Party . He was a member of the Maine House of Representatives in 1909, 1911, and 1913 ; In 1913 he was its president . After the death of Congressman Forrest Goodwin , Peters was elected in the necessary by-election in Maine's third constituency as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington . There he took up his new mandate on September 9, 1913. After he was confirmed in the following four regular elections, he could remain in Congress until his resignation on January 2, 1922. During this time the First World War fell . In addition, the 18th and 19th amendments to the Constitution were discussed and passed in Congress. It was about the Prohibition Act and the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage . In June 1916, John Peters took part as a delegate at the Republican National Convention in Chicago , at which Charles Evans Hughes was nominated as a presidential candidate. This was defeated in the following election to the incumbent President Woodrow Wilson .

Peters resigned after President Warren G. Harding appointed him to succeed Clarence Hale as a judge on the United States District Court for the District of Maine . He held this office from 1922 to 1947; his seat at that court then went to John David Clifford . He was also vice president of Bowdoin College. John Peters died on August 22, 1953 in his native Ellsworth and was buried there.

Web links

• John A. Peters in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• John A. Peters in the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges

• John A. Peters in the database of Find a Grave (English)