Lucien C. Gause

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Lucien C. Gause

Lucien Coatsworth Gause (born December 25, 1836 in Wilmington , North Carolina , † November 5, 1880 in Jacksonport , Arkansas ) was an American politician . Between 1875 and 1879 he represented the first constituency of the state of Arkansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Lucien Gause moved to Lauderdale County , Tennessee , at a young age . There he enjoyed private training. He later studied at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville . After a subsequent law degree at Cumberland University in Lebanon and his admission as a lawyer, he began to work in Jacksonport in his new profession in 1859. During the Civil War he went into the army of the Confederate States of Lieutenant to Colonel on. After the war, he returned to Jacksonport as a lawyer.

Gause was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1866 he was a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives . Then he was before the re-admission of the state of Arkansas to the Union, its representative to the federal government in Washington . After the congressional elections of 1872, he unsuccessfully appealed against the election of Republican Asa Hodges to the US House of Representatives. Two years later he was elected to the Congress to succeed Hodges . After being re-elected in 1876, Gause was able to exercise his mandate between March 4, 1875 and March 3, 1879.

After he had renounced another candidacy in 1878 and therefore left the House of Representatives in 1879, Gause worked again as a lawyer in Jacksonport until his death in November 1880.

Web links

  • Lucien C. Gause in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)