William H. Kitchin

William Hodges Kitchin (born December 22, 1837 in Lauderdale County , Alabama , †  February 2, 1901 in Scotland Neck , North Carolina ) was an American politician . Between 1879 and 1881 he represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Kitchin was the father of Claude Kitchin (1869-1923) and William Walton Kitchin (1866-1924) and the grandfather of Alvin Paul Kitchin (1908-1983). All of these descendants were Congressmen for the state of North Carolina. In 1841 he moved to North Carolina with his parents. Later he visited the Emory and Henry College in Emory ( Virginia ). In April 1861 he left this school to take part in the civil war as a soldier in the Confederation Army . In the course of the war he rose to become captain.

After the war, Kitchin studied law. After his admission to the bar in 1869, he began to work in Scotland Neck in his new profession. Politically, he became a member of the Democratic Party . In the congressional elections of 1878 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of North Carolina , where he succeeded Curtis Hooks Brogden on March 4, 1879 . His electoral success was also the result of an internal dispute between the opposing Republican Party . Since he was not confirmed in 1880, he could only serve one term in Congress until March 3, 1881 .

After leaving the US House of Representatives, Kitchin became a member of the Populist Party for some time , whose federal party congress he attended as a delegate in 1896. After that, he returned to the Democrats. William Kitchin died in Scotland Neck on February 2, 1901.

Web links

• William H. Kitchin in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William H. Kitchin in the database of Find a Grave (English)