John Blaisdell Corliss

John Blaisdell Corliss

John Blaisdell Corliss (born June 7, 1851 in Richford , Franklin County , Vermont , †  December 24, 1929 in Detroit , Michigan ) was an American politician . Between 1895 and 1903 he represented the state of Michigan in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Corliss attended his homeland public schools and the Fairfax Preparatory School . He then studied until 1871 at the Vermont Methodist University in Montpelier . After studying law at Columbian College , now George Washington University , in Washington, DC and being admitted to the bar in 1875, he began to work in his new profession in Detroit. Between 1882 and 1886 he was a city trial lawyer there. During this time he drafted the city's first statute, which was passed in the city council in 1884. John Corliss was also President of the Michigan Lubricator Co. and the Shipman Koal Company of Pennsylvania .

Politically, Corliss was a member of the Republican Party . In the congressional elections of 1894 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the first constituency of Michigan, where he succeeded Levi T. Griffin on March 4, 1895 . After three re-elections, he was able to complete four terms in Congress by March 3, 1903 . During this time the Spanish-American War fell . At that time the Philippines and Hawaii came under American administration. Since 1897 Corliss was chairman of the committee for the congressional and presidential elections.

In the elections of 1902 Corliss was defeated by the Democrat Alfred Lucking . After leaving the US House of Representatives, he worked in Detroit as a lawyer with Corliss, Leete & Moody . In 1920 he was elected to the board of directors of the American Bar Association . John Corliss died in Detroit on December 24, 1929. He had been married to Elizabeth N. Danford, who died in 1886, since 1877, with whom he had four children.

Web links

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

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