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David Austin Starkweather Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Ohio's 18th districtIn office
March 4, 1839 – March 3, 1841Preceded by Matthias Shepler Succeeded by Ezra Dean In office
March 4, 1845 – March 3, 1847Preceded by Ezra Dean Succeeded by Samuel Lahm 8th United States Ambassador to Chile In office
November 22, 1854 – August 26, 1857Preceded by Balie Peyton Succeeded by John Bigler Member of the Ohio House of Representatives
from the Stark County districtIn office
December 2, 1833 – December 6, 1835
Serving with John BrownPreceded by Thomas Blackburn
John GrubbSucceeded by Thomas Blackburn
H. StidgerMember of the Ohio Senate
from the Stark County districtIn office
December 5, 1836 – December 2, 1838Preceded by Matthias Shepler Succeeded by Jacob Hostetter Personal details Born January 21, 1802
Preston, ConnecticutDied July 12, 1876 (aged 74)
Cleveland, OhioPolitical party Democratic Children four David Austin Starkweather (1802–1876) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio and a U.S. diplomat.
Starkweather was born in Preston, Connecticut on January 21, 1802. He attended school, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1825, establishing a practice in Mansfield, Ohio. He later moved to Canton, Ohio.
He was a judge in one of the higher courts in Stark County, Ohio. He was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 1833 to 1835, and a member of the Ohio Senate from 1836 to 1838. He was a representative of the Democrats in Congress from Ohio during from 1839 to 1841 and again from 1845 to 1847. He was chosen a Presidential elector in 1848 for Cass/Butler.[1], and served as U.S. Envoy to Chile from 1854 to 1857.
Strakweather died on July 12, 1876 in Cleveland, Ohio.
References
- ^ Taylor 1899 : 255
- David A. Starkweather at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- Starkweather, Carlton Lee (1904). A brief genealogical history of Robert Starkweather of Roxbury and Ipswich, Massachusetts. Auburn, N.Y.: Press of Knapp, Peck and Thomson. OCLC 16504739.
- Taylor, William Alexander; Taylor, Aubrey Clarence (1899). Ohio statesmen and annals of progress: from the year 1788 to the year 1900 .... 1. State of Ohio. p. 255. http://books.google.com/books?id=ztegAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA255.
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United States House of Representatives Preceded by
Matthias SheplerMember of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Ohio's 18th congressional district
4 March 1839–3 March 1841Succeeded by
Ezra DeanPreceded by
Ezra DeanMember of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Ohio's 18th congressional district
4 March 1839–3 March 1841Succeeded by
Samuel LahmDiplomatic posts Preceded by
Balie PeytonUnited States Envoy to Chile
22 November 1854–26 August 1857Succeeded by
John BiglerCategories:- 1802 births
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