John A. Kasson:Politics and Diplomacy from Lincoln to McKinley by Edward Younger - $19 - (Ottumwa, IA)

8vo; 450 pphardcoverState Historical Society of Iowa; 1955 In 1868 he was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives, where he served until 1872. That year he was returned to the U.S. House to represent Iowa's new 7th congressional district, made up of ten counties in south-central Iowa. He represented that district in Congress for four years, serving from 1873 to 1877. He did not seek renomination in 1876, even though the New York Times reported that summer that he would have "good chances of success" as a candidate to become the next Speaker of the House.[4]In 1877 Kasson was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Austria-Hungary by President Rutherford B. Hayes, a position he held until early 1881. At his suggestion, the four dollar Stella pattern coins were minted in 1879 and 1880.[5]In 1880 he ran once again for Congress, again winning the Republican nomination and general election to represent Iowa's 7th congressional district in the U.S. House. Once again, he was re-elected. His final period in Congress ended in 1884, when he was appointed Envoy and Head of the U.S. Legation at Berlin, Germany by President Chester A. Arthur. He served in that position until 1885, when he was named as a special envoy to the Congo International Conference in Berlin. He was also a special envoy to the Samoan International Conference in 1889. Kasson was a special commissioner plenipotentiary from the United States to negotiate reciprocity treaties in 1897 and was a member of the United States and British Joint High Commission to adjust differences with Canada in 1898.Kasson died in Washington, D.C. on May 18, 1910 and was interred in Woodland Cemetery in Des Moines. (Wikipedia)

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