Norton P. Chipman

Norton P. Chipman

Norton Parker Chipman (born March 7, 1834 in Milford Center , Union County , Ohio , †  February 1, 1924 in San Francisco , California ) was an American politician . Between 1871 and 1875 he represented the Federal District District of Columbia with the federal capital Washington, DC as a non-voting delegate in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Norton Chipman attended public schools in his home country. In 1845 he moved to Iowa where he attended Washington College . After studying law in Cincinnati and being admitted to the bar, he began working in this profession in Washington, Iowa. During the Civil War he served as an officer in the Union Army . He rose to brigadier general. In the meantime he has been seriously wounded. At the end of his military career he was transferred to the legal department of the army. In this capacity he acted as a military attorney on charges against Henry Wirz , the Confederate commander of the notorious Andersonville POW camp , in which around 13,000 Union soldiers perished. After the war, Chipman first settled in the federal capital Washington. Politically, he became a member of the Republican Party . He was a co-founder of the veterans organization Grand Army of the Republic .

In 1871, Chipman was elected to the US House of Representatives as a non-voting congressional delegate for the District of Columbia , where he took up his new mandate on April 21, 1871. The position of congress delegate for the federal capital had been newly created at that time. After a re-election he was able to exercise his mandate in Congress until March 3, 1875. Thereafter this office was abolished by Congress and only reintroduced in 1970.

In 1876 Norton Chipman moved to California, where he worked in the wood industry. Between 1895 and 1896 he was a member of the California State Board of Trade . Between 1905 and 1922 he was an appellate judge in the third judicial district of his new home state. He died in San Francisco on February 1, 1924.

Web links

• Norton P. Chipman in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)