John Adams Hyman

John Adams Hyman

John Adams Hyman (born July 23, 1840 in Warrenton , Warren County , North Carolina , †  September 14, 1891 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1875 and 1877 he represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Hyman was born a slave and grew up in slavery . In the meantime he was sold to Alabama . After the Civil War and the abolition of slavery in the United States , Hyman returned to North Carolina where he worked in agriculture. At the same time he attended schools to acquire basic knowledge. He also began to be interested in politics. Hyman became a member of the Republican Party . In 1865 he was a delegate to a civil rights meeting in North Carolina. He was a member of the North Carolina Senate from 1868 to 1874 . In the congressional elections of 1874 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the second constituency of his state, where he succeeded Charles R. Thomas on March 4, 1875 . Since he was not nominated for re-election by his party in 1876, he was only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1877 .

After leaving the US House of Representatives, Hyman returned to farming. In 1877 and 1878 he worked for the Tax Department in North Carolina's Fourth Financial District. After he had a falling out with his congregation, which accused him of embezzling funds and not agreeing that Hyman operated a trade in alcoholic beverages, he moved to the federal capital Washington. There he worked temporarily for the Post Office and the Ministry of Agriculture. John Hyman died in Washington on September 14, 1891. He left a wife and four children.

Web links

• John Adams Hyman in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John Adams Hyman in the database of Find a Grave (English)