John Franklin Rixey

John Franklin Rixey

John Franklin Rixey (born August 1, 1854 in Culpeper County , Virginia , †  February 8, 1907 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1897 and 1907 he represented the state of Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Rixey was the younger brother of Presley Marion Rixey (1852-1928), chief physician in the United States Navy and personal physician to Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt . He attended the public schools in his home country and the Bethel Academy . He then studied at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1876, he began to work in this profession in Culpeper . From 1879 to 1891 he was a district attorney in Culpeper County. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party .

In the congressional election of 1896 , Rixey was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the eighth constituency of Virginia, where he succeeded Elisha E. Meredith on March 4, 1897 . After four re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on February 8, 1907 . During this time the Spanish-American War of 1898 fell . In November 1906, Rixey had already been re-elected for the next legislative term; but he died before he could take it up. In a by-election, Charles Creighton Carlin was elected as his successor to Congress.

Web links

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

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