Philemon Bliss

Philemon Bliss (1859)

Philemon Bliss (born July 28, 1813 in Canton , Connecticut , †  August 25, 1889 in Saint Paul , Minnesota ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1855 and 1859 he represented the state of Ohio in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Philemon Bliss attended Fairfield Academy and Hamilton College . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1840, he began to work in this profession in Cuyahoga Falls (Ohio). He later moved his residence and office to Elyria . Between 1848 and 1851 he was a judge in the 14th judicial district of his state. Politically, he was initially a member of the short-lived opposition party . From 1857 he belonged to the Republican Party .

In the congressional election of 1854 , Bliss was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 14th  constituency of Ohio , where he succeeded Democrat Harvey H. Johnson on March 4, 1855 . After a re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1859 . These were shaped by the events leading up to the civil war . In 1858 he renounced another candidacy.

Between 1861 and 1868 Philemon Bliss was Chief Justice in the Dakota Territory ; from 1868 to 1872 he was an associate judge on the Supreme Court of Missouri . From 1872 until his death he was Dean of the Law School of the University of Missouri at Columbia . He died in Saint Paul on August 25, 1889 and was buried in Columbia.

Web links

• Philemon Bliss in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Philemon Bliss in the database of Find a Grave (English)