Thomas Updegraff

Thomas Updegraff (born April 3, 1834 in Tioga County , Pennsylvania , † October 4, 1910 in McGregor , Iowa ) was an American politician . Between 1879 and 1899 he represented the state of Iowa in the US House of Representatives twice .

Career

Thomas Updegraff was a descendant of Abraham Isack's op den Graeff , who belonged to the so-called " Original 13 ", the first closed group of German emigrants to America . He attended private schools, the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and a school in Binghamton, New York State . Between 1856 and 1860 he was an administrative clerk at Clayton County , Iowa County Court . After studying law and his admission as a lawyer in 1860, he began to practice in McGregor in his new profession.

Updegraff was a member of the Republican Party . In 1878 he was a member of the Iowa House of Representatives . In the same year he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of Iowa , where he succeeded Theodore Weld Burdick on March 4, 1879 . After re-election in 1880, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1883 . In the elections of 1882 he was not confirmed.

After serving in the House of Representatives, Thomas Updegraff served on the McGregor City Education Committee and attorney. In 1888 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago , where Benjamin Harrison was nominated as a presidential candidate. In the congressional elections of 1892 he was re-elected to the US House of Representatives in the fourth district of Iowa. There he took over the mandate from Walter Halben Butler on March 4, 1893 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three more terms in Congress by March 3, 1899. During this time the Spanish-American War of 1898 fell .

In 1898 Updegraff was not nominated for re-election by his party. After his final departure from Congress, he worked as a lawyer again. Thomas Updegraff died on October 4, 1910 in McGregor and was buried there.

Web links

• Thomas Updegraff in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Thomas Updegraff in the database of Find a Grave (English)