Oliver L. Spaulding

Oliver L. Spaulding

Oliver Lyman Spaulding (born August 2, 1833 in Jaffrey , New Hampshire , †  July 30, 1922 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1881 and 1883 he represented the state of Michigan in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Oliver Spaulding attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1855 Oberlin College in Ohio . He then moved to Michigan, where he worked as a teacher. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1858, he began his new profession in St. Johns . Between 1858 and 1864 he was a board member ( regent ) of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor . During the civil war he rose to the rank of colonel and then brevet brigadier general in the Union army . After the war, Spaulding returned to work as a lawyer. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party .

Between 1866 and 1870, Spaulding was Secretary of State, the executive officer of the Michigan government. From 1871 to 1878 he was a member of the Republican State Executive. From 1875 to 1881 he worked as a special agent for the US Treasury Department . In the congressional elections of 1880 Spaulding was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth constituency of Michigan , where he succeeded Mark S. Brewer on March 4, 1881 . Since he in the elections of 1882 the Democrats Edwin B. Winans lost, he could only one term in until March 3, 1883 Congress completed.

In 1883 Spaulding became chairman of a commission to investigate civil unrest in the Sandwich Islands . From 1885 to 1890 he worked temporarily again for the Federal Ministry of Finance. He was then Deputy Minister of Finance until 1893 and again from 1897 to 1903. In January 1903 he chaired an international conference in New York City dealing with customs issues. Until 1909 he worked again as a special agent for the tax authorities; then he worked for the customs authorities until 1916. Oliver Spaulding then retired. He died on July 30, 1922 in the federal capital Washington and was buried in the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia .

Web links

• Oliver L. Spaulding in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Oliver L. Spaulding in the database of Find a Grave (English)