John M. Sandidge

John M. Sandidge (1859)

John Milton Sandidge (born January 7, 1817 in Carnesville , Franklin County , Georgia , †  March 30, 1890 in Bastrop , Louisiana ) was an American politician . Between 1855 and 1859 he represented the state of Louisiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

The sources give no information about John Sandidge's youth and schooling. He later moved to Louisiana, where he worked as a planter . He was a colonel during the Mexican-American War . Politically, he became a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1846 and 1855 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Louisiana , whose speaker he was for two years. In 1852 he was a member of an assembly to revise the state constitution of Louisiana.

In the congressional election of 1854 , Sandidge was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth constituency of Louisiana , where he succeeded Roland Jones on March 4, 1855 . After a re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1859 . These were determined by the tensions in the run-up to the civil war . From 1857 Sandidge was chairman of the committee that dealt with private land claims.

During the war, Sandidge was a colonel in a cavalry unit from Louisiana. In the absence of Governor Henry Watkins Allen , he had to hand over the state archives to the Union troops when the capital Baton Rouge surrendered. The sources do not provide any information about the further life of John Sandidge after the Civil War. However, he does not seem to have held any other important office and died in Bastrop in March 1890.

Web links

• John M. Sandidge in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John M. Sandidge in the database of Find a Grave (English)