Charles G. De Witt

Charles Gerrit De Witt (born November 7, 1789 in Greenhill , New York , † April 12, 1839 in Newburgh , New York) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1829 and 1831 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives . He was the grandson of Charles DeWitt .

Career

Charles Gerrit De Witt was born in Greenhill about six years after the end of the War of Independence . He studied law . After receiving his license to practice law, he began to practice. He was a clerk in the Department of the Navy and issued the Ulster Sentinel . Politically, he belonged to the Jacksonian faction.

In the 1828 congressional elections for the 21st Congress , De Witt was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the seventh constituency of New York , where he succeeded George O. Belden on March 4, 1829 . Since he on a run again in 1830 renounced, he left the after March 3, 1831 Congress of.

After his time at Congress, he resumed his practice as a lawyer. On March 22, 1831, appointed him Secretary of the Treasury Samuel D. Ingham to one of three Commissioners of Insolvency for the Southern District of New York , and on January 29, 1833 appointed him President Andrew Jackson for diplomatic chargé ( charge d'affaires ) in Central America . In the last year of his mission, the Central American Confederation began to break up as a result of internal power struggles and civil wars that lasted until 1841. De Witt announced his resignation in 1839. He fell ill on the way back to Kingston on board a Hudson River steamship and died on April 12, 1839 near Newburgh. His body was then interred in the Dutch Reformed Cemetery in Hurley .

literature

• "The American almanac and repository of useful knowledge for the year 1833" , 1832, p. 102.

Web links

• Charles G. De Witt in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Charles G. De Witt in the database of Find a Grave (English)