Rowland E. Trowbridge

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Rowland E. Trowbridge

Rowland Ebenezer Trowbridge (born June 18, 1821 in Horseheads , Chemung County , New York , †  April 20, 1881 in Birmingham , Michigan ) was an American politician . Between 1861 and 1869 he twice represented the state of Michigan in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In the year he was born in 1821, Rowland Trowbridge came with his parents to Oakland County in the Michigan Territory . He later attended Kenyon College in Gambier ( Ohio ), which he graduated from in 1841. In the following years he worked in agriculture in Michigan. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party founded in 1854 . He was a member of the Michigan Senate between 1856 and 1860 .

In the congressional election of 1860 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth constituency of Michigan , where he succeeded DeWitt C. Leach on March 4, 1861 . Since he lost to Francis William Kellogg in the elections of 1862 , he was only able to complete one term in Congress until March 3, 1863 . This was shaped by the events of the civil war . In the elections of 1864 Trowbridge was re-elected to Congress in the fifth district of his state as the successor to Augustus C. Baldwin , where he was able to complete two further terms between March 4, 1865 and March 3, 1869. During this time the civil war ended. The following years were overshadowed by the bitter dispute between Trowbridge's party and the new President Andrew Johnson . This conflict culminated in an impeachment proceedings against the president that had just failed in the US Senate . Between 1867 and 1869 Rowland Trowbridge was chairman of the Agriculture Committee. In 1868 the 14th Amendment to the Constitution was passed.

For the elections of 1868 Trowbridge was no longer nominated for re-election by his party. As a result he worked again in agriculture. In the years 1880 and 1881 he was Indian Commissioner. He died on April 20, 1881 in Birmingham, where he was also buried.

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