Thomas R. Hudd

Thomas R. Hudd

Thomas Richard Hudd (born October 2, 1835 in Buffalo , New York , †  June 22, 1896 in Green Bay , Wisconsin ) was an American politician . Between 1886 and 1889 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1842, Thomas Hudd and his mother moved to Chicago , Illinois . In 1853 the family moved to Appleton , Wisconsin. Hudd attended the public schools in these cities. He then studied at Lawrence University in Appleton. After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1856, he began to work in Appleton in his new profession. He served as the district attorney in Outagamie County in 1856 and 1857 .

Politically, Hudd was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1862 and 1885 he sat several times in the Wisconsin Senate . Since 1868 he was based in Green Bay, where he also worked as a lawyer. There he was also a city lawyer in 1873 and 1874. Hudd was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1868 and 1875 . In 1880 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Cincinnati , where Winfield Scott Hancock was nominated as a presidential candidate.

After the death of Congressman Joseph Rankin , Hudd was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC when he was due by-election for the fifth seat of Wisconsin , where he took up his new mandate on March 8, 1886. After being re-elected, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1889 . There he was from 1887 chairman of the Committee for the Control of Expenditures of the Ministry of the Interior. In 1888 Hudd renounced another candidacy for Congress. In the following years he worked again as a lawyer in Green Bay. He died there on June 22, 1896.

Web links

• Thomas R. Hudd in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Thomas R. Hudd in the database of Find a Grave (English)