Julius Hotchkiss

Julius Hotchkiss

Julius Hotchkiss (born July 11, 1810 in Waterbury , Connecticut , †  December 23, 1878 in Middletown , Connecticut) was an American politician . Between 1867 and 1869 he represented the second constituency of the state of Connecticut in the US House of Representatives . He was also the lieutenant governor of his home state.

Career

Julius Hotchkiss, son of a farming family, attended the public schools in his home country and later taught for a short time in Prospect himself as a teacher. He then moved back to his native Waterbury. There he ran a shop and a factory that manufactured cotton products and, above all, suspenders. In 1852 he was elected mayor of Waterbury as a joint candidate for the Democratic Party and the Whigs . He then became a member of the Democratic Party. Hotchkiss was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1851 and 1858 .

In 1866, Hotchkiss was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the second district of Connecticut . There he took over on March 4, 1867, succeeding Republican Samuel L. Warner . Until March 3, 1869, he completed only one term in Congress , which was determined by the political dispute between the Republicans and President Andrew Johnson . The climax of this dispute was an impeachment procedure against the president, which was supported by the Republican majority in the US House of Representatives, but failed in the US Senate due to a Republican vote. The Democrats supported the president in this dispute.

After his tenure in the US House of Representatives, Julius Hotchkiss was Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1870 to 1871 . After that he did not hold any further political offices. He died in Middletown in December 1878. Julius Hotchkiss was married to Melissa Perkins, with whom he had five children.

Web links

• Julius Hotchkiss in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Julius Hotchkiss in the database of Find a Grave (English)