- John W. Houston
John Wallace Houston (
May 4 ,1814 -April 26 ,1896 ) was aUnited States Representative fromDelaware . Born inConcord, Delaware , he attended the country schools and Newark Academy, and was graduated fromYale College in 1834. He studied law in Dover, was admitted to the bar in 1837, moved toGeorgetown, Delaware in 1839 and commenced the practice of law.Houston was
Secretary of State of Delaware from 1841 to 1844, and was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, and Thirty-first Congresses, serving fromMarch 4 ,1845 toMarch 4 ,1851 . While in the House, he was chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Thirtieth Congress). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1850, and was appointedassociate judge of theDelaware Superior Court onMay 4 ,1855 . Houston was a member of the peace conference of 1861, held inWashington, D.C. , in an effort to devise means to prevent the impending war. He retired from the bench in 1893 and died in Georgetown; interment was in the Presbyterian Cemetery,Lewes, Delaware .Houston's nephew,
Robert G. Houston , was also a U.S. Representative from Delaware.References
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