James Linn

James Linn (born 1749 in Bedminster , Province of New Jersey , †  January 5, 1821 in Trenton , New Jersey ) was an American politician . Between 1799 and 1801 he represented the state of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives .

Career

James Linn attended the public schools in his home country and then studied at Princeton College until 1769 . After a subsequent law degree and his admission to the bar in 1772, he began to work in Trenton in this profession. He later returned to Somerset County where he served as an appeal judge. Linn joined the American Revolution and was a delegate to the New Jersey Provincial Congress in 1776. During the War of Independence he was major in the state militia between 1776 and 1781. At the same time he began a political career. In 1777 he became a member of the State Council , the precursor to the New Jersey Senate . After the war he moved back to Trenton. Between 1790 and 1791 he was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly . From 1793 to 1797 he sat again on the State Council .

In the late 1790s, Linn joined the Democratic Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson . In the congressional elections of 1798 he was elected for the third seat of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives, which was then still in Philadelphia , where he succeeded Mark Thomson on March 4, 1799 . Since he refused to run again in 1800, he could only complete one legislative period in Congress until January 3, 1801 . During this time, the government and Congress moved to the new federal capital Washington, DC

During the presidency of Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809) Linn was employed by the Federal Treasury as Supervisor of the Revenue . From 1809 to 1820 he was Secretary of State, the executive officer of the state government of New Jersey; in this office he succeeded John Beatty . James Linn died in Trenton on January 5, 1821.

Web links

• James Linn in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• James Linn in the database of Find a Grave (English)