John Q. Tufts

John Quincy Adams Tufts (July 12, 1840 – September 4, 1902) was an American Republican politician from Iowa and California. He was founder of a sporting goods company in Los Angeles, California.

The son of Servetus or Servitus Tufts and Emily (Dudley), John Q. was born in Aurora, Indiana, on July 12, 1840), and he moved to a farm in Muscatine County, Iowa, with his parents in 1852. He attended common schools as a child and then Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa. He married Susan Shaw Cook on October 10, 1861. They had eleven children.

Tufts moved to Los Angeles in 1887. He was a member of the Masons and of the Creel Club

On September 4, 1902, he died in his home, 3303 South Grand Avenue, at age 68. He was survived by his wife and ten children, Mrs. F.M. Lyon, Mrs. A.B. Cass, Mrs. Will Muir, Edward B. Tufts, John Q. Tufts Jr., Will A. Tufts, Carl R. Tufts and Roy N. Tufts, all of Los Angeles; Mrs. Robert Frick of San Francisco, and Mrs. T.A. Sanson of Indian Territory. He was interred in Angelus Cemetery in Central Los Angeles.

In 1858, Tufts moved to Cedar County, Iowa, and was a farmer near Wilton in that county.

Tufts was a member of the Iowa House of Representatives in 1870, 1872 and 1874. In his final term he was the chairman of the Railroad Committee of the Iowa House and was considered a strong advocate for railroad regulation.

In 1874 he was elected as a Republican to represent Iowa's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. He did not run for re-election in 1876. He served in Congress from March 4, 1875 to March 3, 1877. He was also a United States Indian Agent in the Union Agency at Muskogee in the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), from 1879 to 1887.

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