John AT Hull

John AT Hull (1896)

John Albert Tiffin Hull (born May 1, 1841 in Sabina , Clinton County , Ohio , †  September 26, 1928 in Clarendon , Virginia ) was an American Republican politician .

Life

Hull moved to Iowa with his parents in 1849 . After school he attended Indiana Asbury University in Greencastle , Indiana , Iowa Wesleyan College in Mount Pleasant , Iowa and the Cincinnati Law School in Cincinnati , where he received his doctorate in the spring of 1862. After he was admitted to the bar , he began working in Des Moines .

In July 1862, he volunteered for the Army and fought in the 23rd Regiment of the Iowa Volunteer Infantry. Due to injuries he had in October 1863 with the rank of captain his farewell take. In 1872 he was elected Secretary of the Senate of Iowa , in 1878 he became Secretary of State of Iowa (this has, among other things, the task of an election officer ). In 1886 he became Lieutenant Governor of Iowa (election 1885, re-election 1887) under Governor William Larrabee , which he remained until 1890.

In 1890 he was elected to the 52nd Congress of the United States as a member of the seventh congressional district of Iowa , which met in 1891. He was re-elected in the subsequent nine elections and remained in Congress until 1911. From 1895 to 1911 he was the chairman of the United States House Committee on Armed Services . He was considered the "right hand man" of the controversial speaker of the House of Representatives , Joseph Gurney Cannon .

In 1910 he was defeated in the party primaries Solomon F. Prouty , who was supported by Albert B. Cummins , the Senator and former governor of Iowa. Prouty and Cummins belonged to the progressive wing of the Republican Party , while Hull was considered a conservative ( stand-patter ). The Prohibition Party had not put up its own candidates for the primary elections, so voters were allowed to write names on the ballot papers themselves. In addition to many individual nominations, John AT Hull was the only one who had been written down by two voters, making him the legal candidate for the Prohibition Party. It is not clear from the sources whether Hull also ran this candidacy.

After serving as a member of Parliament, Hull worked as a lawyer again until 1916, this time in Washington .

He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. His son John Adley Hull (1874–1944) was 1924–1928 Supreme Court Judge and 1932–1936 Associate Justice at the Supreme Court of the then American Philippines .

Web links

• John AT Hull in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Will Contest Hull's Seat . (PDF) In: New York Times , April 7, 1910, p. 5
2. ^ Carroll Has Narrow Margin . (PDF) In: New York Times , June 9, 1910, p. 3
3. ↑ Cummins Reopens Fight on Cannon . (PDF) In: New York Times , January 2, 1910, p. 12
4. ^ Iowa to Vote To-Morrow . (PDF) In: New York Times , June 6, 1910, p. 3
5. ^ Hull Gets a Nomination: Two Votes Make Him Lawful Candidate of Prohibition Party . (PDF) In: New York Times , June 12, 1910, p. 1