Valentine B. Horton

Valentine B. Horton (1859)

Valentine Baxter Horton (born January 29, 1802 in Windsor , Vermont , †  January 14, 1888 in Pomeroy , Ohio ) was an American politician . Between 1855 and 1859 and again from 1861 to 1863 he represented the state of Ohio in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Valentine Horton graduated from Partridge Military School . After a subsequent law degree in Middletown ( Connecticut ) and his admission to the bar in 1830, he began to work in this profession in Pittsburgh ( Pennsylvania ). In 1833 he moved his residence and his law firm to Cincinnati and in 1835 to Pomeroy, Meigs County . At that time he also got into the coal business and the salt industry. He also became president of the Atlantic and Lake Erie Railway Co. At the same time he embarked on a political career. In the 1850s he joined the short-lived Opposition Party and then the Republican Party founded in 1854 . In 1860 he took part in a constitutional convention of his state as a delegate.

In the congressional elections of 1854 Horton was elected as a candidate for the opposition party in the Eleventh constituency of Ohio to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Democrat Thomas Ritchey on March 4, 1855 . After re-election as Republican, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1859 . These were shaped by the events leading up to the civil war . In 1858 he renounced another candidacy. In the spring of 1861 he was a member of a negotiating commission that unsuccessfully tried to prevent the outbreak of civil war in the federal capital, Washington. In the congressional elections of 1860 Horton was re-elected to Congress in the eleventh district of his state, where he replaced Charles D. Martin on March 4, 1861 , who had been his successor there two years earlier. Since he was no longer running in 1862, he could only spend one more term in Congress until March 3, 1863, which was overshadowed by the civil war.

After his tenure in the US House of Representatives, Valentine Horton resumed his previous activities. He was mainly active in the coal business. He died on January 14, 1888 in Pomeroy, where he was also buried.

Web links

• Valentine B. Horton in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Valentine B. Horton in the database of Find a Grave (English)