John Van Lear Findlay

This article is about the U.S. Representative from Maryland. For the U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, seeJohn Findlay (United States politician).

John Van Lear Findlay
Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromMaryland's4thdistrict
In office March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1887
Preceded by	Robert Milligan McLane
Succeeded by	Isidor Rayner
Personal details
Born	(1839-12-23)December 23, 1839 WilliamsportMaryland,U.S.
Died	April 19, 1907(1907-04-19)(aged 67) BaltimoreMaryland
Resting place	Greenmount Cemetery
Political party	Democratic
Education	Princeton University

John Van Lear Findlay(December 21, 1839 – April 19, 1907) was aU.S. RepresentativefromMaryland.

Biography

Born at Mount Tammany, nearWilliamsport, Maryland,Findlay was privately tutored, pursued classical studies, and graduated fromPrinceton Collegein 1858. He served as member of theMaryland House of Delegatesin 1861 and 1862. He studied law, wasadmitted to the bar,and commenced practice inBaltimore, Maryland,in 1869. He served as collector of internal revenue for the third district of Maryland at Baltimore in 1865 and 1866, and was appointed city solicitor for Baltimore in 1876 and served two years. He was orator for Maryland on "Maryland Day" at the United StatesCentennial Exhibitionof 1876.

Findlay was elected as aDemocratto theForty-eighthandForty-ninthCongresses (March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1887). He resumed the practice of law, and was appointed a member of theVenezuelanClaims Commission in 1889, and nominated as arbitrator on theChileanClaims Commission in 1893, but the Senate rejected the nomination. He died inBaltimore, Maryland,April 19, 1907, and was interred inGreenmount Cemetery.

Family

Findlay was a nephew of U.S. SenatorWilliam Findlay's son John King Findlay.

References

• United States Congress."John Van Lear Findlay (id: F000121)".Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

Wilson, J. G.;Fiske, J.,eds. (1900)."Findlay, William".Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography.New York: D. Appleton. This article incorporatespublic domain materialfrom theBiographical Directory of the United States Congress