John Watts McCormick | |
State: | Ohio |
District: | 11th |
Term Start: | March 4, 1883 |
Term End: | March 3, 1885 |
Preceded: | Henry S. Neal |
Succeeded: | William W. Ellsberry |
Party: | Republican |
Birth Date: | 20 December 1831 |
Birth Place: | Gallipolis, Ohio, US |
Death Place: | Gallipolis, Ohio, US |
Restingplace: | Mount Zion Cemetery |
Alma Mater: | Ohio Wesleyan University Ohio University |
Spouse: | Caroline Miles Sarah Miles |
John Watts McCormick (December 20, 1831 - June 25, 1917) was an American politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1883 to 1885,
Born near Gallipolis, Ohio, he was the son of John R. and Sarah Wadell McCormick.[1] McCormick attended Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio, and Ohio University at Athens.He engaged in agricultural pursuits and stock raising.He taught school and later became a Methodist minister.He served as a delegate to the Ohio constitutional convention in 1873.
McCormick was elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1885).He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1884 to the Forty-ninth Congress.Trustee of Rio Grande College 1883-1885.
He resumed agricultural pursuits.He died in Gallipolis, Ohio, June 25, 1917.He was interred in Mount Zion Cemetery near Gallipolis, Ohio.
He married first to Caroline Miles, and later to Sarah Miles.[1]