John Stoughton Newberry

John Stoughton Newberry (born November 18, 1826 in Waterville , Oneida County , New York , †  January 2, 1887 in Detroit , Michigan ) was an American politician . Between 1879 and 1881 he represented the state of Michigan in the US House of Representatives .

Career

As a child, Newberry came to Michigan with his parents, where he attended the Romeo Academy . He then studied to 1847 at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor . For the next two years he worked as an engineer in railway construction. After completing a law degree, he was admitted to the bar in 1853. John Newberry subsequently published the first volume of court rulings on cases that had occurred in western waters. At the beginning of the 1860s he was active in the field of railway wagon construction. He became a partner in such a company, which then became the Michigan Car Company in Detroit.

Between 1862 and 1864 Newberry was during the Civil War, the Military Police (Captain Provost Marshal ) in the area of the State of Michigan. Since 1864 he has been involved in various craft companies. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party . In the congressional election of 1878 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of Michigan , where he succeeded Alpheus S. Williams on March 4, 1879 . Since he refused to run again in 1880, he was only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1881 .

After leaving the US House of Representatives, Newberry has not held any other public office; he died on January 2, 1887 in Detroit. He was married twice. From his second marriage to Helen P. Handy came the son Truman (1864-1945), who represented the state of Michigan in the US Senate between 1919 and 1922 and was previously Secretary of the Navy of the United States .

Web links

• John Stoughton Newberry in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John Stoughton Newberry in the database of Find a Grave (English)