John Coburn (politician)

John Coburn (1874)

John Coburn (born October 27, 1825 in Indianapolis , Indiana , †  January 28, 1908 ) was an American politician . Between 1867 and 1875 he represented the state of Indiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Coburn attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1846 Wabash College in Crawfordsville . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1849, he began to work in Indianapolis in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career. In 1850 he was a member of the Indiana House of Representatives . Between 1859 and 1861, Coburn served as a judge at an appeals court. During the civil war he was a colonel in the Union army . In the course of the war he made it to the Brevet Brigadier General. In 1865 he was appointed Secretary of the Montana Territory ; but he did not accept this office. Between October 1865 and July 1866, John Coburn was a judge in the Indiana Fifth Judicial District. Politically, he joined the Republican Party .

In the congressional election of 1866 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth constituency of Indiana , where he succeeded Ebenezer Dumont on March 4, 1867 . After three re-elections, he was able to complete four legislative terms in Congress by March 4, 1875 . Since 1869 he represented there as the successor of George Washington Julian the fifth district of his state. Until 1869, the work of Congress was marred by tension between Republicans and President Andrew Johnson . This resulted in an impeachment procedure that just failed in the Senate . From 1869 to 1871, Coburn was chairman of the Public Expenditure Control Committee. He then headed the Military Committee from 1871 to 1875.

In 1874, Coburn was not confirmed. Between February 1884 and December 1885 he was a Supreme Court Justice in the Montana Territory. He then returned to Indianapolis, where he practiced as a lawyer again. He died there on January 28, 1908.

Web links

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

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