John R. French

John R. French

John Robert French (born May 28, 1819 in Gilmanton , Belknap County , New Hampshire , †  October 2, 1890 in Boise , Idaho ) was an American politician . Between 1868 and 1869 he represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John French received a good primary education in Gilmanton and Concord . He then completed an apprenticeship in the printing trade; then he got into the newspaper business. In the following years he edited various newspapers in New Hampshire, Maine and Ohio . Since 1854 he lived in Lake County , Ohio. Politically, he joined the Republican Party founded in 1854 . French was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives in 1858 and 1859 .

In 1861, French got a position at the US Treasury Department in Washington . In 1864 he was appointed by President Abraham Lincoln to the Tax Commission for the Civil War- occupied state of North Carolina. Then he moved to Edenton . In 1867 he was a delegate to a meeting to revise the North Carolina Constitution. After the re-admission of that State to the Union in the first French was electoral district in the US House of Representatives voted in Washington, where he took up his new mandate on July 6. 1868 Since he was no longer running in the regular congressional elections of 1868 , he was only able to complete the rest of the current legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1869 . This was marked by tensions between his Republican Party and President Andrew Johnson .

Between 1869 and 1879, John French held the honorary office of Sergeant at Arms in the US Senate . In 1880 he became a member of a commission that dealt with issues relating to the Ute Indians. As a result, he first lived in Washington and Omaha ( Nebraska ), before he moved to Boise, where he edited a daily newspaper. He died there on October 2, 1890.

Web links

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

• John R. French in the database of Find a Grave (English)