John Plank Tracey

John Plank Tracey (1896)

John Plank Tracey (born September 18, 1836 in Wayne County , Ohio , †  July 24, 1910 in Springfield , Missouri ) was an American politician . Between 1895 and 1897 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Tracey attended public schools in Ohio and Indiana . After that, he taught himself as a teacher while studying law at the same time. In 1858 he came to Missouri. During the civil war between 1862 and 1865 he served in the Union Army , where he rose from a simple soldier to a first lieutenant. In April 1865, he became a lieutenant colonel in the Missouri State Militia. After his admission to the bar in May 1865, he began to work in this profession in Stockton . From 1874 Tracey lived in Springfield, where he also worked as a journalist. In 1878 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of railway commissioner of his state. From 1890 to 1894 he was US Marshal for the western part of Missouri.

Politically, Tracey was a member of the Republican Party . In the congressional election of 1894 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the seventh constituency of Missouri , where he succeeded Democrat John T. Heard on March 4, 1895 . Since he lost to James Cooney in 1896 , he could only serve one term in Congress until March 3, 1897 .

Tracey was a member of the Missouri House of Representatives in 1903 and 1904 . From 1909 he ran the soldiers' home in St. James . He was also involved in the newspaper business in Springfield. He died there on July 24, 1910.

Web links

• John Plank Tracey in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)