Sidney Dean

Sidney Dean (1859)

Sidney Dean (born November 16, 1818 in Glastonbury , Connecticut , †  October 29, 1901 in Brookline , Massachusetts ) was an American politician . Between 1855 and 1859 he represented the third constituency of the state of Connecticut in the US House of Representatives .

Career

After finishing school, Sidney Dean was a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church between 1843 and 1853 . He gave up this position in 1853 for health reasons. Instead, he worked in the trade in Putnam . He also started a political career. He became a member of the American Party and was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1854 to 1855 .

In the congressional election of 1854 he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third district of Connecticut . There he took over from the Democrat Nathan Belcher on March 4, 1855 . During his first term in Congress , Sidney Dean joined the Republican Party, founded in 1854 . He was confirmed as their candidate in 1856. This enabled him to complete two legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1859, which were increasingly determined by the political tensions in the run-up to the civil war . Between 1855 and 1857, Dean chaired the Public Expenditure Control Committee. For the elections of 1858 he decided not to run again.

In 1860 Dean became a clergyman again. He preached in various congregations, most notably in Rhode Island . In Providence he published several newspapers between 1865 and 1880. Between 1870 and 1871 he was a member of the Rhode Island Senate . In the following years he was also active as a literary and lecturer. Sidney Dean died on October 29, 1901 in Brookline, Massachusetts and was buried in Warren, Rhode Island.

Web links

• Sidney Dean in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Sidney Dean in the database of Find a Grave (English)