John Henry Lumpkin

John Henry Lumpkin (born June 13, 1812 in Lexington , Georgia , †  July 10, 1860 in Rome , Georgia) was an American politician . Between 1843 and 1849 and again from 1855 to 1857 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Lumpkin was a nephew of Wilson Lumpkin (1783-1870), who was governor of Georgia from 1831 to 1835 and represented this state in both chambers of Congress . He attended the public schools of his home country and then studied in the years 1831 and 1832 at Franklin College , the later University of Georgia in Athens , and Yale University . He then worked as the private secretary of his uncle, who was then governor of Georgia. After completing a law degree and being admitted to the bar in 1834, he began to work in his new profession in Rome.

Politically, Lumpkin was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1835 he was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives, and in 1838 he became a district attorney in the Cherokee Judicial District . In 1840 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress. In the state-wide held congressional elections in 1842 , he was then elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , for the eighth seat in Georgia , where he succeeded Walter T. Colquitt on March 4, 1843 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1849. These had been shaped by the events of the Mexican-American War since 1845 . From 1845 Lumpkins represented the fifth congressional electoral district of his home state as the successor to Howell Cobb .

After his preliminary resignation from the US House of Representatives, Lumpkin worked between 1850 and 1853 as a judge in the judicial district of the city of Rome. In the elections of 1854 he was re-elected to Congress in the fifth district, where he replaced Elijah Webb Chastain on March 4, 1855 . Since he renounced another candidacy in 1856, he could only spend one more term in the US House of Representatives until March 3, 1857. At that time there was heated debate over the issue of slavery . In addition, tensions increased in the run-up to the civil war .

After his final resignation from the US House of Representatives, Lumpkin worked again as a lawyer. In 1857 he ran unsuccessfully for governor of Georgia. In 1860 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Charleston , where the party failed to agree on a presidential candidate. Lumpkin died on July 10th of the same year in his hometown of Rome.

Web links

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

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