Joseph H. Acklen

Joseph H. Acklen

Joseph Hayes Acklen (born May 20, 1850 in Nashville , Tennessee , †  September 28, 1938 there ) was an American politician . Between 1878 and 1881 he represented the state of Louisiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Joseph Acklen came from a wealthy family in Tennessee who also owned plantains in Louisiana. He received a private education and then attended Burlington Military College in New Jersey in 1864 and 1865 . He then studied in Switzerland and France . After a subsequent law degree at the Lebanon Law School in Tennessee and his admission to the bar in 1871, he began to work in his new profession in Nashville and later in Memphis .

After a few years, Acklen decided to quit his law practice in Tennessee and move to Louisiana, where he ran a sugar plantation near Patterson . In 1876 he became a colonel in the Louisiana State Militia. Politically, Acklen became a member of the Democratic Party . In the congressional election of 1876 he was defeated by the Republican incumbent Chester Bidwell Darrall . Acklen, however, appealed against the outcome of this election. This was granted on February 20, 1878. On that day he was able to take up his mandate in Congress . After being re-elected, he could remain in the US House of Representatives until March 3, 1881. In 1880 he renounced another candidacy. In the following years Joseph Acklen worked as a lawyer in Franklin . He turned down an offer from President Rutherford B. Hayes , who offered him the position of federal judge. In 1882 he applied unsuccessfully to return to the US House of Representatives.

In 1885 Joseph Acklen returned to Nashville, where he worked as a lawyer. Between 1886 and 1894 he was Democratic Party leader in Davidson County . Between 1900 and 1904 he was a member of the Nashville City Council. He was also President of the Tennessee Bar Association in 1901 and 1902. From 1903 to 1907, Acklen was an insurance advisor to the Tennessee state government. He was also a gamekeeper, forestry and fisheries commissioner first for the state of Tennessee (1903-1913) and then until 1914 for the federal government. Between 1907 and 1911 Acklen also served as president of a railway company. Politically, he was between 1923 and 1927 Chairman of the Committee on the Revision of the State Constitution of Tennessee. He was also known as the author of numerous books that dealt mainly with natural topics such as fishing, forest or forest. Joseph Acklen died on September 28, 1938 in his native Nashville.

family

Joseph Hayes Acklen's parents were Joseph Alexander Smith Acklen and his wife Adelica, b. Cheatham. Joseph Acklen was married to Jeanette Catherine Acklen (11 November 1871 - 2 April 1955), daughter of Richard Montgomery Tillotson and Mary Agnes Parke from Leavenworth.

Web links

• Joseph H. Acklen in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Joseph H. Acklen in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Jeanette Catherine Tillotson Acklen, In: Find A Grave (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ North America, Family Stories, 1500-2000, Joseph H Acklen, In: Ancestry.com