John Frank Boyd

John Frank Boyd (born August 8, 1853 in Connellsville , Fayette County , Pennsylvania , † May 28, 1945 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American politician . Between 1907 and 1909 he represented the third constituency of the state of Nebraska in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1857, John Boyd and his parents moved to Henry County , Illinois . There he attended public schools and then Abingdon College . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1878, he began to work in his new profession in Galva (Illinois). In 1883 Boyd moved to Oakdale , Antelope County , Nebraska. Between 1888 and 1894 he was a district attorney there. He was then from 1900 to 1907 a judge in the ninth legal district of Nebraska. From 1901 he was resident in the city of Neligh .

Boyd became a member of the Republican Party . In the congressional elections of 1906 he was elected to the US House of Representatives, where he succeeded John McCarthy on March 4, 1907 . After he was not confirmed in office in the congressional elections of 1908, John Boyd could only hold one term in Congress until March 3, 1909 . After the end of his time in Congress, he withdrew from politics. He worked as a lawyer in Neligh until 1929, when he retired entirely, which he spent in Los Angeles. He died there in 1945.

Web links

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

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