John S. Bigby

John S. Bigby

John Summerfield Bigby (born February 13, 1832 in Newnan , Georgia , †  March 28, 1898 in Atlanta , Georgia) was an American politician . Between 1871 and 1873 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Bigby attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1853 the Emory College in Oxford (Georgia). After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1856, he began to work in Newnan in his new profession. Politically, he only appeared as a member of the Republican Party after the Civil War . In 1867 and 1868 he was a delegate to a meeting to revise the Georgia state constitution. During the same period, he was also a prosecutor in the judicial district of Tallapoosa . In this district he also served as a judge from 1868 to 1871.

In the congressional elections of 1870 Bigby was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of Georgia , where he succeeded Marion Bethune on March 4, 1871 . Since he was defeated by the Democrat Philip Cook in the elections of 1872 , he could only serve one term in Congress until March 3, 1873 . By 1965 he was the last Republican to represent Georgia’s Third District in the US House of Representatives.

After leaving Congress, Bigby worked as an attorney in Atlanta. In 1876 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Cincinnati , where Rutherford B. Hayes was nominated as a candidate for president. In the same year he became president of the Atlanta & West Point Railroad . John Bigby died in Atlanta on March 28, 1898.

Web links

• John S. Bigby in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John S. Bigby in the database of Find a Grave (English)