Mahlon Dickerson Manson

Mahlon Dickerson Manson (born February 20, 1820 in Piqua , Ohio , † February 4, 1895 in Crawfordsville , Indiana ) was an American officer and politician . Between 1871 and 1873 he represented the state of Indiana in the US House of Representatives ; from 1885 to 1886 he served as its lieutenant governor .

Career

Mahlon Manson attended public schools in his home country. He then worked in Montgomery County , Indiana as a teacher. He then studied medicine at Ohio Medical College in Cincinnati . He later gave medical lectures in New Orleans . During the Mexican-American War , he was captain of a volunteer unit in 1847 and 1848. After the war, Manson worked as a pharmacist in Crawfordsville. During the civil war between 1861 and 1864 he rose from captain to brigadier general in the army of the Union . Manson was wounded in the thigh on August 30, 1862 at the Battle of Richmond , Kentucky, captured by Confederate forces, and later exchanged. From September to December 1863 he commanded the 23rd Army Corps as the successor to George Lucas Hartsuff . He took part in several battles and was wounded in the process. In the meantime he became a prisoner of war, from which he was freed through a prisoner exchange.

Politically, Manson was a member of the Democratic Party . After he had been a member of the Indiana House of Representatives from 1851 to 1852 , he ran unsuccessfully for the office of lieutenant governor of Indiana in the year. In the congressional elections of 1870 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the seventh constituency of Indiana , where he succeeded Godlove Stein Orth on March 4, 1871 . Since he was not confirmed in 1872, he could only serve one term in Congress until March 3, 1873 .

In 1878 Manson was elected State Auditor of Indiana. In the years 1885 and 1886 he was lieutenant governor of his state and thus deputy to governor Isaac P. Gray . He then headed the Tax Department in Indiana Seventh Financial District until 1889. Mahlon Manson died on February 4, 1895 in Crawfordsville, where he was also buried. He was married to Caroline Mitchell (1828-1896), with whom he had a daughter.

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SURNAME	Manson, Mahlon Dickerson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American officer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	February 20, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH	Piqua , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH	February 4, 1895
Place of death	Crawfordsville , Indiana