Willard Ives

Willard Ives (born July 7, 1806 in Watertown , New York , † April 19, 1896 there ) was an American politician . Between 1851 and 1853 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Willard Ives was born in Watertown, Jefferson County , about six years before the outbreak of the Civil War . He attended community schools, the Belleville Academy and the Lowville Academy . After that he worked in agriculture, but also pursued banking business. He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1829 and 1830 . As a delegate, he took part in the World Convention of Methodists in London ( Great Britain ) in 1846 .

In 1848 he ran unsuccessfully for the 31st Congress . Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party . In the 1850 congressional elections for the 32nd Congress , Ives was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 19th  constituency of New York , where he succeeded Charles E. Clarke on March 4, 1851 . He retired from the after March 3, 1853 Congress of.

Then he was President of Ives Seminary in Antwerp , which he equipped. He was one of the founders of Syracuse University , where he sat on the Board of Trustees between 1870 and 1886 . After that he worked in agriculture. He died in Watertown on April 19, 1896 and was buried in Brookside Cemetery .

Web links

• Willard Ives in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Willard Ives in the database of Find a Grave (English)