Tire York

Tire York (born May 4, 1836 in Rockford , Surry County , North Carolina , †  January 28, 1916 in Traphill , North Carolina) was an American politician . Between 1883 and 1885 he represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Tire York attended the common schools and then studied in Charleston ( South Carolina ) medicine. After his admission as a doctor, he began practicing this profession in Traphill in 1859. At the same time he also ran a farm. In the final stages of the Civil War , he was a doctor with the North Carolina State Home Forces.

After the war, York embarked on a political career. He was a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1865, 1866, 1879, and 1887 . He also sat in the State Senate in 1876 and 1881 . In the early 1880s he joined the anti- prohibition movement. In the congressional election of 1882 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC with the support of the Republican Party in the seventh constituency of North Carolina , where he succeeded Robert Franklin Armfield on March 4, 1883 . Since he refused to run again in 1884, he was only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1885 .

In 1884, Tire York ran as a Republican candidate for governor of North Carolina, but was defeated by Democrat Alfred Moore Scales with 46:54 percent of the vote. After a final term in his state's House of Representatives in 1887, he withdrew from politics. As a result he worked again in agriculture. He died on January 28, 1916 in Traphill.

Web links

• Tire York in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Tire York in the database of Find a Grave (English)