John Cosgrove

John Cosgrove

John Cosgrove (born September 12, 1839 in Alexandria Bay , New York , †  August 15, 1925 in Boonville , Missouri ) was an American politician . Between 1883 and 1885 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Cosgrove attended his home public schools and the Redwood School . After a subsequent law degree in Watertown and his admission as a lawyer in 1863, he began to work in this profession. In 1865 he moved to Boonville, Missouri, where he also practiced as a lawyer. In the years 1870 and 1871, then again from 1877 to 1878 and between 1879 and 1881 he was the legal representative of this city; In 1872 he served as a prosecutor in Cooper County there .

Politically, Cosgrove was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1872 and 1920 he was a delegate to the respective Democratic National Conventions . In the congressional election of 1882 he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth constituency of Missouri , where he succeeded Ira Sherwin Hazeltine on March 4, 1883 . Since he announced in 1884, shortly before the next election, that he would not run again, he could only complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1885 .

After leaving the US House of Representatives, John Cosgrove withdrew from politics. In the following years he worked as a lawyer again. He died in Boonville on August 15, 1925.

Web links

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

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