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Nathan Evans (politician)

American politician

Field	Value
name	Nathan Evans
image	Nathan Evans (Ohio) from findagrave.jpg
state	Ohio
district
term_start	March 4, 1847
term_end	March 3, 1851
preceded	Alexander Harper
succeeded	Alexander Harper
party	Whig
birth_date
death_date
birth_place	Belmont County, Ohio
death_place	Cambridge, Ohio
restingplace	South Cemetery

Nathan Evans (June 24, 1804 – September 27, 1879) was a 19th-century American lawyer and politician who was a U.S. representative from Ohio for two terms from 1847 to 1851.

Biography

Born in Belmont County, Ohio, Evans was county clerk of Belmont County in 1827 and 1828. While there he taught school and studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1831 and commenced practice in Hillsboro, Ohio.

He moved to Cambridge, Ohio, in 1832, and became mayor in 1841. He later served as prosecuting attorney of Guernsey County from 1842 to 1846.

Congress

Evans was elected as a Whig to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses (March 4, 1847 – March 3, 1851).

Later career and death

He was not a candidate for renomination in 1850 and resumed his legal practice in Cambridge. Evans again served as mayor from 1855 to 1857, then as Common Pleas Judge from 1859 to 1864.

Evans then resumed his legal practice until his death in Cambridge on September 27, 1879. He was interred in South Cemetery.

Sources

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