John Bingham

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John Armor Bingham

John Armor Bingham (born January 21, 1815 in Mercer , Mercer County , Pennsylvania , † March 19, 1900 in Cadiz , Ohio ) was an American politician of the Opposition Party and the Republican Party . From 1855 to 1863 and from 1865 to 1873 he was a member of the House of Representatives of the United States for the 16th and the 21th  congressional district of the state of Ohio. He is considered to be the initiator of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution .

biography

John Armor Bingham was born in Mercer. There he attended public schools. After his family moved to Ohio, he became a trainee at a printing company for two years. He studied law at Franklin College . He was admitted to the bar in 1840. He opened a law firm in New Philadelphia . From 1846 to 1849 he was a prosecutor in Tuscarawas County .

He became politically active when he was elected to the US House of Representatives as a candidate for the opposition party in 1854 . In 1856 , 1858 and 1860 he was re-elected as a candidate for the Republican Party. In 1862 his candidacy was unsuccessful. The House of Representatives named him in the same year as one of the persons responsible in the impeachment proceedings of Judge West Hughes Humphreys.

During the Civil War he supported the northern states . Abraham Lincoln appointed him Judge Advocate General's Corps in 1864 . In 1865 he became a solicitor in the United States Court of Claims . In 1864 he was re-elected to the House of Representatives. As one of the three judges, he was involved in the trial following the murder of Abraham Lincoln. The verdict was issued on June 29, 1965.

During his renewed time in Congress, he was instrumental in the creation and drafting of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution. In 1868 he was a judge in the impeachment case against President Andrew Johnson . In 1873 he left the Congress for good. President Ulysses S. Grant appointed him US envoy to Japan in 1873. He served there until 1885. He retired into private life and died in Caidz in 1900. There he was buried in Union Cemetery.

literature

• Gerard N. Magliocca: American Founding Son: John Bingham and the Invention of the Fourteenth Amendment. New York University Press, New York City 2013, ISBN 978-0-8147-6145-8 .

Web links

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

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