Mason Cook Darling

Mason Cook Darling (born May 18, 1801 in Amherst , Massachusetts , † March 12, 1866 in Chicago , Illinois ) was an American politician . Between 1848 and 1849 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Mason Darling attended public schools in his home country. He then taught as a teacher in New York State for several years . After a subsequent medical degree at Berkshire Medical College and his license as a doctor in 1824, he worked in this profession for the following 13 years. In 1837 he moved to the Wisconsin Territory . There he was one of the first settlers in Fond du Lac .

In his new home, Darling began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1840 and 1846 he was a member of the Territorial House of Representatives; from 1847 to 1848 he was a member of the territorial government council. After Wisconsin joined the Union, he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the second constituency of the new state , where he took up his new mandate on June 9, 1848. Since he did not run again in the congressional elections of 1848 , he was only able to end the current legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1849 .

In 1852 Darling was elected mayor of his hometown, Fond Du Lac. Otherwise he practiced as a doctor again; he also worked in the real estate business. In 1864 he moved to Chicago, where he died on March 12, 1866. Mason Darling was buried in Fond Du Lac.

Web links

• Mason Cook Darling in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Mason Cook Darling in the database of Find a Grave (English)