Luman Hamlin WELLER, Congress, IA (1833-1914)
WELLER, Luman Hamlin, a Representative from Iowa; born in Bridgewater, Litchfield County, Conn., August 24, 1833; attended public school in New Britain; attended the Suffield Literary Institute, Conn.; farmer; justice of the peace; lawyer, private practice; elected as a Greenbacker to the Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Forty-ninth Congress in 1884; proprietor and editor of the Farmersâ Advocate, a weekly paper, Independence, Iowa; member of the Peopleâs Party national committee, 1890-1914; served as president of the Chosen Farmers of America; twice unsuccessful candidate for judge of the supreme court of Iowa; was an unsuccessful candidate of the Peopleâs Party for Governor of Iowa in 1901; died on March 2, 1914, Minneapolis, Minn.; interment in Greenwood Cemetery, near Nashua, Chickasaw County, Iowa.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
