John Hogan (January 2, 1805 – February 5, 1892) was a businessman and politician in Illinois and Missouri, serving as a

United States representative The United States House of Representatives, often referred to as the House of Representatives, the U.S. House, or simply the House, is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together they ...

(D-MO) for one term.

Biography

Born in Mallow,

County Cork County Cork ( ga, Contae Chorcaí) is the largest and the southernmost county of Ireland, named after the city of Cork, the state's second-largest city. It is in the province of Munster and the Southern Region. Its largest market towns are ...

, Ireland, he immigrated to the United States in 1817 with his family and settled in

Baltimore Baltimore ( , locally: or ) is the List of municipalities in Maryland, most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland, fourth most populous city in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic, and List of United States cities by popula ...

Maryland Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to ...

. He was apprenticed to learn the shoemaker's trade, received a limited schooling, and became a licensed

Methodist Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings of John Wesley. George Whitefield and John's b ...

preacher before twenty years of age. He went West in 1826 (to what is now the Midwest) and preached in the Illinois conference. He entered the general merchandise business in

Madison, Illinois Madison is a city in Madison and St. Clair counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. The population was 3,891 at the 2010 census. It is home to World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway and the first Bulgarian Orthodox church in the United States. ...

in 1831, served as president of the Illinois Board of Public Works from 1834 to 1837, and was elected as a member of the

Illinois House of Representatives The Illinois House of Representatives is the lower house of the Illinois General Assembly. The body was created by the first Illinois Constitution adopted in 1818. The House under the current constitution as amended in 1980 consists of 118 re ...

in 1836. Hogan was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for Congress in 1838. He was appointed as register of the

land office The General Land Office (GLO) was an independent agency of the United States government responsible for public domain lands in the United States. It was created in 1812 to take over functions previously conducted by the United States Department o ...

Dixon, Illinois Dixon is a city and the county seat of Lee County, Illinois, United States. The population was 15,733 as of the 2010 census, down from 15,941 in 2000. The city is named after founder John Dixon, who operated a rope ferry service across the R ...

, serving from 1841 to 1845. He moved to

St. Louis, Missouri St. Louis () is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi River, Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while the Greater St. Louis, ...

and engaged in the wholesale grocery business. He was appointed as US

postmaster A postmaster is the head of an individual post office, responsible for all postal activities in a specific post office. When a postmaster is responsible for an entire mail distribution organization (usually sponsored by a national government), ...

of St. Louis, serving from 1857 to 1861. Hogan was elected as a

Democrat Democrat, Democrats, or Democratic may refer to: Politics *A proponent of democracy, or democratic government; a form of government involving rule by the people. *A member of a Democratic Party: **Democratic Party (United States) (D) **Democratic ...

from St. Louis to the Thirty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1865 – March 3, 1867). He was an unsuccessful candidate in 1866 for reelection to the Fortieth Congress. He died in St. Louis in 1892 and was buried at

Bellefontaine Cemetery Bellefontaine Cemetery is a nonprofit, non-denominational cemetery and arboretum in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1849 as a rural cemetery, Bellefontaine is home to a number of architecturally significant monuments and mausoleums such as the ...

References

External links

* 1805 births 1892 deaths People from Mallow, County Cork Irish emigrants to the United States (before 1923) American Methodist clergy Illinois Whigs Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Missouri Members of the Illinois House of Representatives Clergy from St. Louis People from Madison, Illinois People from Dixon, Illinois Missouri postmasters 19th-century Methodists 19th-century American clergy {{Missouri-politician-stub