John H. Graham

John Hugh Graham (born April 1, 1835 in Belfast , Ireland , † July 11, 1895 in Brooklyn , New York ) was an American officer and politician . Between 1893 and 1895 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Hugh Graham was born in Belfast two years before the death of William IV , King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover . The following year the Graham family immigrated to the United States and settled in the then still independent city of Brooklyn. There he attended public schools. After the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted in Company A of the Fifth Regiment ( Heavy Artillery ) of the New York Volunteers , where he served as captain for three years . For his fearlessness and merit, which he showed at Harpers Ferry and Shenandoah Valley, Virginia , he was promoted first to Major and then to Brevet - Lieutenant Colonel . After the war, he went to the hardware business in Brooklyn.

Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party . In the congressional elections of 1892 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fifth constituency of New York , where he succeeded Thomas F. Magner on March 4, 1893 . Since he on a run again in 1894 renounced, he left the after March 3, 1895 Congress of.

He died on July 11, 1895 in Brooklyn and was buried there in Green-Wood Cemetery .

Web links

• John H. Graham in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John H. Graham in the database of Find a Grave (English)

Notes and individual references

1. ^ Paul Christopher Anderson: Shenandoah Valley During the Civil War , Encyclopedia Virginia
2. ↑ Shenandoah Valley Battlefields
3. ↑ In the English-speaking world, the term hardware also stands for household goods and machine equipment. Graham may have traded in these goods too.