John Van Dyke

John Van Dyke (born April 3, 1807 in Lamington , Somerset County , New Jersey , †  December 24, 1878 in Wabasha , Minnesota ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1847 and 1851 he represented the state of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Van Dyke attended public schools in his home country. After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1836, he began to work in New Brunswick in this profession. In 1841 he was a prosecutor in Middlesex County . Van Dyke served as Mayor of New Brunswick in 1846 and 1847. He was also president of the local branch of the Bank of New Jersey .

Politically, Van Dyke was a member of the Whig Party . In the congressional elections of 1846 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth constituency of New Jersey , where he succeeded Joseph E. Edsall on March 4, 1847 . After re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1851 . These were initially shaped by the events of the Mexican-American War . In 1850 he decided not to run again for Congress.

After his time in the US House of Representatives, Van Dyke practiced law again. After the dissolution of the Whigs, he joined the Republican Party, founded in 1854 . In 1856 he took part as a delegate at the first Republican National Convention in Philadelphia , at which John C. Frémont was nominated as a presidential candidate. Van Dyke was a judge on the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1859 to 1866 . In 1868 he moved to Wabasha, Minnesota. In the years 1872 and 1873 he sat in the local state senate . Van Dyke was a judge in the Minnesota Third Judicial District from 1873 until his death. He died on December 24, 1878 in Wabasha, where he was also buried.

Web links

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

• John Van Dyke in the database of Find a Grave (English)