Jonas H. McGowan

Jonas H. McGowan

Jonas Hartzell McGowan (born April 2, 1837 in Mahoning County , Ohio , †  July 5, 1909 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1877 and 1881 he represented the state of Michigan in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Jonas McGowan first attended a school in Alliance . In 1854 he moved with his parents to Orland , Steuben County , Indiana . Until 1861 he studied at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor . He then taught for a year as a teacher in the town of Coldwater . In the following years he took part in the civil war as a cavalry soldier in the Union Army . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1867, he began to work in his new profession. From 1868 to 1872 he was a district attorney in Branch County .

Politically, McGowan belonged to the Republican Party , for which he sat in the Michigan Senate . He served on the University of Michigan board of directors for seven years. In the congressional elections of 1876 McGowan was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington in the third constituency of Michigan, where he succeeded George Willard on March 4, 1877 . After re-election in 1878, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1881 . During this time, the reconstruction in the former member states of the Confederation ended .

In 1880 McGowan declined to run again. After leaving the US House of Representatives, he stayed in the federal capital, Washington, where he worked as a lawyer. He died there on July 5, 1909. He was married to Josephine Pruden since 1862.

Web links

• Jonas H. McGowan in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Jonas H. McGowan in the database of Find a Grave (English)