John Test

John Test (born November 12, 1771 in Salem , Salem County , Province of New Jersey , †  October 9, 1849 in Cambridge City , Indiana ) was an American politician . Between 1823 and 1831 he represented the state of Indiana in the US House of Representatives twice .

Career

As a child, John Test moved with his parents to Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , where he attended public schools. Then he moved to Fayette County . There he ran the Fayette Chance Furnace company for several years . About Cincinnati ( Ohio ) he came to Brookville , Indiana, where he operated a mill. After a subsequent law degree and his admission to the bar, he began to work in Brookville in this profession. In this city he subsequently held a number of local offices. Between 1816 and 1819 he was a judge in the Indiana Third Judicial District.

Politically, Test was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party . In the 1820s, he first joined the faction around the future President Andrew Jackson . In the congressional elections of 1822 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the newly created third constituency of Indiana , where he took office on March 4, 1823. After re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1827 . However, he represented the movement around President John Quincy Adams during the second legislative term, which began in 1825 . He was now in opposition to Jackson.

In 1826, John Test was defeated by the independent candidate Oliver H. Smith . In the elections of 1828 he was re-elected to Congress as a member of the short-lived National Republican Party , where he could spend another legislative period between March 4, 1829 and March 3, 1831. During this time there was heated discussion of the policy of President Andrew Jackson, who has also been in office since March 1829. After leaving the House of Representatives, John Test became a presiding judge on the Indiana Circuit Court . He then moved to Mobile , Alabama , where he practiced as a lawyer. He died on October 9, 1849 near Cambridge City in Wayne County .

Web links

• John Test in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)