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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OhioJohn Armor BINGHAM
(1815-1900)
BINGHAM, John Armor, a
Representative from Ohio; born in Mercer, Mercer County, Pa.,
January 21, 1815; pursued academic studies; apprentice in a
printing office for two years; attended Franklin College, Ohio;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1840 and commenced practice
in New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas County, Ohio; district attorney for
Tuscarawas County, Ohio, 1846-1849; elected as an Opposition Party
candidate to the Thirty-fourth Congress and as a Republican to the
Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1855-March 3,
1863); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1862 to the
Thirty-eighth Congress; appointed by President Lincoln as judge
advocate of the Union Army with the rank of major in 1864; later
appointed solicitor of the court of claims; special judge advocate
in the trial of the conspirators against the life of President
Lincoln; elected to the Thirty-ninth and to the three succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1873); chairman, Committee on
Claims (Fortieth Congress), Committee on the Judiciary (Forty-first
and Forty-second Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for
renomination in 1872; one of the managers appointed by the House of
Representatives in 1862 to conduct the impeachment proceedings
against West H. Humphreys, United States judge for the several
districts of Tennessee, and in 1868 in the proceedings against
Andrew Johnson; appointed Minister to Japan and served from May 31,
1873, until July 2, 1885; died in Cadiz, Harrison County, Ohio,
March 19, 1900; interment in Cadiz Cemetery.
Bibliography
Beauregard, Erving E. Bingham of the Hills: Politician and
Diplomat Extraordinary. New York: Peter Lang, 1989.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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