John Wentworth (politician)

John Wentworth

John Wentworth (born March 5, 1815 in Sandwich , Carroll County , New Hampshire , †  October 16, 1888 in Chicago , Illinois ) was an American politician .

John Wentworth was born in Sandwich in 1815. He attended Dartmouth College in Hanover and graduated there in 1836. In the same year Wentworth moved to Chicago, where he worked as an office clerk in a law firm. He was also the editor of the Chicago Democrat and studied law. In 1841 Wentworth was accepted into the bar.

After he had represented the state of Illinois from March 4, 1843 to March 3, 1851 and from March 4, 1853 to March 3, 1855 as a Democrat in the US House of Representatives , he moved to the newly formed Republicans in the late 1850s . As a member of this party, Wentworth was Mayor of Chicago from 1857 to 1858 and again from 1860 to 1861 . After another tenure in Congress from March 4, 1865 to March 3, 1867, Wentworth retired from politics and returned to practice as a lawyer. He died on October 16, 1888 at the age of 73 and was buried in Rosehill Cemetery in northern Chicago.

Web links

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