US Congressman, Civil War Union Militia General. He was admitted to the Missouri State Bar Association in 1840, and built a law practice in St. Joseph, Missouri. When the Civil War began he was commissioned as a Brigadier General in the Missouri State Militia, and worked to recruit, train and organized the militia forces. He was in command of a force of militia on August 13, 1862 at Yellow Creek, Missouri that attacked a routed a Confederate force of about 1,500 irregulars, a victory that significantly reduced Confederate guerilla operations in the area for the duration of the war. In 1862 he had been elected as an Unconditional Unionist to represent Missouri’s 7th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives, but did not take his seat until after he resigned his Missouri Militia commission on June 8, 1863. He served from 1863 to 1869, and voted to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1865. Defeated for re-election in 1868 by Republican Joel Funk Asper, he was appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant as a Visitor to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. He served as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1876, and also unsuccessfully ran for Congress again. He passed away in St. Joseph in 1881.
US Congressman, Civil War Union Militia General. He was admitted to the Missouri State Bar Association in 1840, and built a law practice in St. Joseph, Missouri. When the Civil War began he was commissioned as a Brigadier General in the Missouri State Militia, and worked to recruit, train and organized the militia forces. He was in command of a force of militia on August 13, 1862 at Yellow Creek, Missouri that attacked a routed a Confederate force of about 1,500 irregulars, a victory that significantly reduced Confederate guerilla operations in the area for the duration of the war. In 1862 he had been elected as an Unconditional Unionist to represent Missouri’s 7th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives, but did not take his seat until after he resigned his Missouri Militia commission on June 8, 1863. He served from 1863 to 1869, and voted to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1865. Defeated for re-election in 1868 by Republican Joel Funk Asper, he was appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant as a Visitor to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. He served as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1876, and also unsuccessfully ran for Congress again. He passed away in St. Joseph in 1881.
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