John R. McBride

John Rogers McBride

John Rogers McBride (born August 22, 1832 in St. Louis , Missouri , † July 20, 1904 in Spokane , Washington ) was an American politician ( Republican Party ). Between 1863 and 1865 he represented the state of Oregon in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John McBride attended public schools in his homeland and later in Oregon, where he had moved with his parents in 1851. There the family settled near Lafayette . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1855, he began to work in this profession in Lafayette.

In 1857 he was a delegate to the Oregon Constituent Assembly and between 1860 and 1862 he was a member of the Oregon Senate . In 1862 he was elected as the first Republican from Oregon to the US House of Representatives, where he replaced George K. Shiel on March 4, 1863 . McBride was no longer nominated by his party for another term in Congress in 1864 . Therefore, he resigned from parliament on March 3, 1865.

After his tenure in Congress ended, McBride was named Chief Justice in the Idaho Territory by President Abraham Lincoln . President Ulysses S. Grant appointed him director of the United States Assay Office in Boise in 1869 . In 1872 and between 1880 and 1892, McBride was a member of the Republican National Committee . He also worked as a lawyer in Boise and later in Salt Lake City , Utah, and finally in Spokane. He died there in 1904.

John McBride was an older brother of George W. McBride , who served in the US Senate for Oregon from 1895 to 1901 . His other brother, Thomas, was the Chief Justice in Oregon.

Web links

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

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