Peter Percival Elder

Peter Percival Elder (born September 20, 1823 in New Portland , Somerset County , Maine , †  November 19, 1914 in Ottawa , Kansas ) was an American politician . Between 1871 and 1873 he was lieutenant governor of the state of Kansas.

Career

Peter Elder attended public schools in his home country and then taught as a teacher. In 1857 he moved to the Kansas Territory , which at that time was ravaged by bloody fighting between supporters and opponents of slavery . Elder was an opponent of this institution. He was involved in building the local Franklin County . Politically, he became a member of the Republican Party . In 1859 he was employed as a clerk at the Territorial House of Representatives. After Kansas' accession to the Union, he became a member of the local Senate . During the civil war he was commissioned by the federal government to make the native Indian tribes friendly to the Union and even to win some Indians for the Union's army . In 1865 he moved to Ottawa; in 1868 he was re-elected to the Kansas Senate, and in 1870 he was his party's state chairman.

In 1870, Elder was elected lieutenant governor of Kansas, alongside James Madison Harvey . He held this office between January 9, 1871 and January 13, 1873. He was Deputy Governor . Between 1875 and 1877 and again in 1883 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Kansas . In 1877 he was President of this Chamber. In the meantime he was also the mayor of Ottawa. Peter Elder also successfully campaigned for a rail link in his homeland. He became president of this railway company. He was also president of the First National Bank of Ottawa . Later he devoted himself more to agriculture and animal husbandry. In 1896 he founded the Ottawa Times newspaper , which he edited for several years. He died in Ottawa on November 19, 1914.

Web links

• Peter Percival Elder in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• The Political Graveyard
• The lieutenant governors of Kansas