Silas Hare

Silas Hare

Silas Hare (born November 13, 1827 in Ross County , Ohio , †  November 26, 1908 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1887 and 1891 he represented the state of Texas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1840, Silas Hare and his parents came to Hamilton County , Indiana . He attended public and private schools in his new home. During the Mexican-American War he was a soldier in an Indiana volunteer unit. After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1850, he began to work in Noblesville in this profession. In 1853 he moved to Belton , Texas, where he continued to practice as a lawyer. In 1862 he became a judge in what would later become the state of New Mexico under the government of the Confederate States . He then took part in the civil war as a captain in the Confederation Army .

After the war, Hare worked as a lawyer again. Between 1873 and 1876 he was a criminal judge. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . In 1884 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago , where Grover Cleveland was first nominated as a presidential candidate. In the congressional election of 1886 , Hare was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the fifth constituency of Texas, where he succeeded James W. Throckmorton on March 4, 1887 . After re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1891 . In 1890 he was no longer nominated for re-election by his party.

After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives, Silas Hare worked as a lawyer in the federal capital Washington, where he died on November 26, 1908.

Web links

• Silas Hare in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Silas Hare in the database of Find a Grave (English)