Selucius Garfielde

Selucius Garfielde

Selucius Garfielde (born December 8, 1822 in Shoreham , Vermont , †  April 13, 1881 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1869 and 1873 he represented the Washington Territory as a delegate to the United States House of Representatives .

Career

The sources do not provide any information about Garfielde's youth and education. He moved to Gallipolis in Ohio and later to Paris ( Kentucky ). There he worked as a journalist in the newspaper industry. In addition, he now received an academic education. At the same time he began to be interested in politics. In 1849 Garfielde was a delegate to a meeting to revise the Kentucky constitution.

In 1851 Garfielde moved to California . There he became a member of the House of Representatives in 1852 . In 1853 he was a member of a commission for the revision of state laws. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1854, he began working in his new profession in San Francisco . A year later, in 1855, he returned to Kentucky. At that time Garfielde was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1856 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Cincinnati , on which James Buchanan was nominated as a presidential candidate.

Since 1857 Garfielde lived in the Washington Territory , where he was tax collector ( Receiver of Public Moneys ) between 1857 and 1860 . In 1860 he ran unsuccessfully for the post of congress delegate of his territory. He then headed the land surveying service in the Washington Territory from 1866 to 1869. In the meantime he had become a member of the Republican Party . In the congressional elections of 1868 he was elected as a delegate to the US House of Representatives in Washington DC, where he succeeded Alvan Flanders on March 4, 1869 . After re-election in 1870, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1873 .

In the elections of 1872 Garfielde was defeated by the Democrat Obadiah B. McFadden . In 1873 he was appointed head of customs for the Puget Sound District. He later moved to Seattle where he practiced as a lawyer. At the same time he maintained another law firm in the federal capital Washington. He died there on April 13, 1881.

Web links

• Selucius Garfielde in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)