John R. Fellows

John R. Fellows

John R. Fellows (born July 29, 1832 in Troy , New York , † December 7, 1896 in New York City ) was an American officer , lawyer and politician . Between 1891 and 1893 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John R. Fellows was born in Troy, Rensselaer County . The Fellows family then moved to Saratoga County and settled near Mechanicville . In the following time he attended the village schools there. In 1850 he moved to Camden ( Arkansas ). He studied law . He was admitted to the bar in 1855 and then began practicing in Camden.

In the presidential election of 1860 , he joined the Constitutional Union Party as an elector ( presidential elector ) for John Bell and Edward Everett on. The Republican Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin then emerged as the winners of the race. Fellows participated as a delegate at the State Secession Convention in 1861 and in 1868 at the Democratic National Convention .

He enlisted in the 1st Arkansas Regiment of the Confederate Army during the Civil War . After the Battle of Shiloh , he was promoted to colonel and assigned to Brigadier General William Beall's staff as an assistant adjutant . In the summer of 1863 he was Inspector General in the Confederate fortress Port Hudson ( Louisiana ). Fellows served there in the occupation during the siege . He was one of three commissioners who arranged the surrender of Port Hudson to Major General Nathaniel Prentiss Banks on July 9, 1863 . He was then taken prisoner under Brigadier General Alexander Shaler and remained there until June 10, 1865.

After the end of the war, he resumed his practice as a lawyer in Camden. He sat in the New York Senate in 1866 and 1867 . In 1868 he moved to New York City, where he again worked as a lawyer. Between 1869 and 1872 and between 1885 and 1887 he was deputy district attorney . He was then elected District Attorney - a position he held between 1888 and 1890.

In the congressional elections of 1890 he was elected as a Democrat in the sixth constituency of New York to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Charles H. Turner on March 4, 1891 . In 1892 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in the 14th constituency of New York, where he succeeded William Griggs Stahlnecker on March 4, 1893 . Fellows announced his resignation on December 31, 1893.

He then returned to New York City as a district attorney from January 1, 1894 - a position he held until his death on December 7, 1896. He died of complications from gastric cancer . His body was buried in Trinity Church Cemetery .

letter

• Fac Similes of John R. Fellows's Letters to Tweed , The New York Times, February 5, 1887

literature

• Col. JohnR. Fellows Dead , The New York Times, December 8, 1896
• Funeral of Col. Fellows , The New York Times, December 9, 1896
• Burial of Col. Fellows , The New York Times, December 10, 1896

Web links

• John R. Fellows in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John R. Fellows in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• John R. Fellows on familytreemaker's website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Company C - 1st Arkansas Infantry Regiment, CSA
2. ^ Keep them before the people. - The letters John R. Fellows wrote to William M. Tweed. , The New York Times, February 6, 1887