John W. Longyear

John W. Longyear

John Wesley Longyear (born October 22, 1820 in Shandaken , Ulster County , New York , †  March 11, 1875 in Detroit , Michigan ) was an American politician . Between 1863 and 1867 he represented the state of Michigan in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Longyear attended the Lima Academy in New York State and then worked as a teacher for several years. In 1844 he moved to Mason , Michigan, where he also worked as a teacher. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1846, he began practicing his new profession in Lansing in 1847 .

Politically, Longyear was a member of the Republican Party . In the congressional elections of 1862 he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of Michigan , where he succeeded Francis William Kellogg on March 4, 1863 . After a re-election in 1864, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1867 . These were shaped by the events of the civil war and its consequences. Since 1865 he saw the conflict between his party and the new President Andrew Johnson over the reconstruction in Congress . While in the US House of Representatives, John Longyear chaired the Public Property Spending Committee.

In 1866 Longyear decided not to run for Congress again. That year he took part as a delegate at the Loyalist Congress in Philadelphia . In 1867 Longyear served in a convention to revise the Michigan constitution. On February 7, 1870, he was appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant to be a judge in the federal district court for the eastern part of Michigan. In 1871 he moved to Detroit, where he died on March 11, 1875.

Web links

• John W. Longyear in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John W. Longyear in the database of Find a Grave (English)