Marion Bethune

Marion Bethune

Marion Bethune (born April 8, 1816 in Greensboro , Greene County , Georgia , †  February 10, 1895 in Talbotton , Georgia) was an American politician . Between 1870 and 1871 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Marion Bethune enjoyed a private school education and then attended De Hagan's Academy . In 1829 he came to Talbotton with his widowed mother, where he worked in trade. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1842, he began to work in his new profession in Talbotton. Between 1852 and 1868 he served as a probate judge in Talbot County . Bethune only became politically active as a member of the Republican Party after the Civil War . He was a member of the Georgia Constitutional Revision Assembly, which repealed the 1861 withdrawal from the Union. Bethune was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives from 1867 to 1871 .

After the re-elected in 1868 Congressman William P. Edwards was denied his seat in Congress , Bethune was elected in the due by-election for the third seat of Georgia as its successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC . There he took up his new mandate on December 22, 1870. Since he was not confirmed in the regular elections of 1870 , he could only end the current legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1871.

In 1872 Bethune ran again unsuccessfully for the US House of Representatives. Otherwise he practiced as a lawyer again. In 1890 he was in charge of the United States Census . He died on February 20, 1895 in his hometown of Talbotton and was buried there.

Web links

• Marion Bethune in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Marion Bethune in the database of Find a Grave (English)