Orlando B. Ficklin

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Orlando Bell Ficklin (born December 16, 1808 in Scott County , Kentucky , †  May 5, 1886 in Charleston , Illinois ) was an American politician . Between 1843 and 1849 and again from 1851 to 1853 he represented the state of Illinois in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Orlando Ficklin attended public schools in his home country. After a subsequent law degree at the Transylvania Law School in Lexington and his admission to the bar in 1830, he began to work in this profession in Mount Carmel (Illinois). In 1832 he took part in the Black Hawk War . He then became a colonel in the Wabash County Militia . He was also a public prosecutor in this district in 1835. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . He was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives in 1835, 1838, and 1842 .

In the 1842 congressional election , Ficklin was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of Illinois , where he succeeded John T. Stuart on March 4, 1843 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1849 . These were shaped by the events of the Mexican-American War . From 1845 to 1847 he was chairman of the public real estate committee. In the elections of 1850 he was re-elected to Congress, where he replaced Timothy R. Young on March 4, 1851 , who had succeeded him two years earlier. By March 3, 1853 he completed another term of office, which was determined by the events leading up to the civil war . During this time, Ficklin served as chairman of the District of Columbia Administration Committee .

After his time in the US House of Representatives, Orlando Ficklin practiced as a lawyer again. In the years 1856, 1860 and 1864 he took part as a delegate to the respective Democratic National Conventions , where he attended the party convention in Charleston in 1860 and not the second in Baltimore . In 1869 and 1870 he was a delegate to a meeting to revise the Illinois Constitution; In 1878 he was once again a member of the state parliament. He died in Charleston on May 5, 1886.

Web links

  • Orlando B. Ficklin in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
personal data
SURNAME Ficklin, Orlando B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ficklin, Orlando Bell (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Scott Kentucky , Kentucky
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1886
Place of death Charleston , Illinois