John O. Whitehouse

John O. Whitehouse

John Osborne Whitehouse (born July 19, 1817 in Rochester , New Hampshire , † August 24, 1881 in Poughkeepsie , New York ) was an American politician . Between 1873 and 1877 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Osborne Whitehouse was born and raised in Rochester, Strafford County , about two and a half years after the end of the British-American War . During this time he attended community schools. In 1835 he moved to New York City . He worked there in 1839 as an office worker ( clerk ). Then he moved to the then still independent city of Brooklyn , where he did commercial business and worked as a manufacturer of shoes. In 1860 he moved to Poughkeepsie in Dutchess County , where he continued his occupation as a shoe maker. Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party .

In the congressional election of 1872 for the 43rd Congress , Whitehouse was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the 13th  constituency of New York , where he succeeded Joseph H. Tuthill on March 4, 1873 . He was re-elected once. Since he on a run again in 1876 renounced, he left the after 3 March 1877 Congress of. As a Congressman, he chaired the Committee on Reform in the Civil Service ( 44th Congress ).

After his time at the congress he went back to making shoes. But he also pursued banking business and was involved in railway construction. Between 1872 and 1880 he owned the Daily News . He died on August 24, 1881 in Poughkeepsie and was then buried in Green-Wood Cemetery , Brooklyn.

Web links

• John O. Whitehouse in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John O. White House in the database of Find a Grave (English)