Mark L. De Motte

Mark L. De Motte

Mark Lindsey De Motte (born December 28, 1832 in Rockville , Parke County , Indiana , †  September 23, 1908 in Valparaiso , Indiana) was an American politician . Between 1881 and 1883 he represented the state of Indiana in the US House of Representatives .

Life

After primary school, Mark De Motte studied literature at Asbury University , later DePauw University in Greencastle , until 1853 . After studying law at the same university and being admitted to the bar in 1855, he began to work in this profession in Valparaiso. In 1856 he became a district attorney in the 67th Judicial District of Indiana. During the civil war , De Motte served in the Union army . He rose to the rank of captain.

After his military service, he moved to Lexington , Missouri , where he bought and edited a newspaper. Politically, Mark De Motte was a member of the Republican Party . In the years 1872 and 1876 he ran unsuccessfully for the Congress . In 1876 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Cincinnati , on which Rutherford B. Hayes was nominated as a candidate for president. In 1877 he returned to Valparaiso, where he practiced as a lawyer again. Two years later he founded the Northern Indiana Law School , of which he was dean from 1890 until his death in 1908.

In the congressional elections of 1880 De Motte was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the tenth constituency of Indiana , where he succeeded William H. Calkins on March 4, 1881 . Since he was defeated by the Democrat Thomas Jefferson Wood in 1882 , he could only serve one term in Congress until March 3, 1883 . Mark De Motte served in the Indiana Senate from 1886 to 1890 ; from 1890 to 1894 he was a postman in Valparaiso. He died in this city on September 23, 1908.

Web links

• Mark L. De Motte in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Mark L. De Motte in the database of Find a Grave (English)