John Montgomery Glover

John Montgomery Glover

John Montgomery Glover (born September 4, 1822 in Harrodsburg , Mercer County , Kentucky , †  November 15, 1891 in Newark , Missouri ) was an American politician . Between 1873 and 1879 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Glover was the uncle of Congressman John Milton Glover (1852-1929). He attended public schools in his home in Kentucky and Missouri, where he had moved with his parents in 1836. After studying law and being admitted to the bar, he began working in this profession in St. Louis . In 1850 he temporarily moved to California , where he also practiced as a lawyer. In 1855 he returned to Knox County , Missouri. During the Civil War he was Colonel in a volunteer cavalry unit from Missouri between September 1861 and February 1864 . After that, he had to quit military service for health reasons. From December 1866 to March 1867 he headed the tax authorities in the third financial district of his state.

Politically, Glover was a member of the Democratic Party . In the congressional election of 1872 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the then newly created twelfth constituency of Missouri , where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1873. After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1879 . From 1877 he was chairman of the Ministry of Finance's Expenditure Control Committee.

In 1878 Glover was no longer nominated for re-election by his party. After leaving the US House of Representatives, he withdrew from politics. In the following years he worked in agriculture. He died on November 15, 1891 on his farm near Newark.

Web links

• John Montgomery Glover in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John Montgomery Glover in the database of Find a Grave (English)