Elijah Hise
Elijah Hise(July 4, 1802 – May 8, 1867) was a United States diplomat andU.S. Representativefrom the3rd districtofKentucky.[1]
Hise was born July 4, 1802, inAllegheny County, Pennsylvania,before moving with his parents, Frederick and Nancy (Eckstein) Hise, toRussellville, Kentucky,when young. He completed preparatory studies and then attendedTransylvania University,Lexington, Kentucky.He studied law and was admitted to the bar and commenced practice.
Hise was a member of theKentucky House of Representativesin 1829. He was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate forLieutenant Governorin 1836. He served as theChargé d'AffairestoGuatemala,January 31, 1849 – June 23, 1849.[2]In addition, he was the chief justice of theCourt of Appeals of Kentucky.
Hise was elected as a Democrat to theThirty-ninth Congressto fill the vacancy caused by the death ofHenry Grider,and he was reelected to theFortieth Congress.In all he served from December 3, 1866, until his death by suicide on May 8, 1867, inRussellville, Kentucky.He left behind a suicide note in which he rued "the impending disaster and ruin [of the country] in which despotic and unconstitutional rule has involved her."[3]He was buried in Maple Grove Cemetery.[4]
The town ofHiseville, Kentucky,was named in honor of the congressman.[5]
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- United States Congress."Elijah Hise (id: H000644)".Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- ^"Guatemala"(List of Ambassadors to Guatemala).United States Department of State.2005.RetrievedAugust 30,2007.
- ^Daily Arkansas Gazette, May 15, 1867
- ^Allen, William B. (1872).A History of Kentucky: Embracing Gleanings, Reminiscences, Antiquities, Natural Curiosities, Statistics, and Biographical Sketches of Pioneers, Soldiers, Jurists, Lawyers, Statesmen, Divines, Mechanics, Farmers, Merchants, and Other Leading Men, of All Occupations and Pursuits.Bradley & Gilbert. pp.275–276.RetrievedNovember 10,2008.
- ^Rennick, Robert M. (1987).Kentucky Place Names.University Press of Kentucky. p. 142.ISBN0813126312.RetrievedApril 28,2013.
- 1802 births
- 1867 deaths
- Politicians from Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
- Democratic Party members of the Kentucky House of Representatives
- Ambassadors of the United States to Guatemala
- Transylvania University alumni
- Kentucky lawyers
- People from Russellville, Kentucky
- 19th-century American diplomats
- Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Kentucky
- Judges of the Kentucky Court of Appeals
- 19th-century American legislators
- 19th-century American judges
- 19th-century American lawyers
- Suicides in Kentucky