John W. Cady

John Watts Cady (born June 28, 1790 in Florida , New York , † January 5, 1854 in Johnstown , New York) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1823 and 1825 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives . Congressman Daniel Cady was his uncle.

Career

John Watts Cady was born in Montgomery County in Florida about seven years after the Revolutionary War ended . He attended school at Old Stone Manse in Fort Hunter and graduated from Union College in Schenectady in 1808 . Then he studied law . After receiving his license to practice law, he began practicing in Johnstown (then Montgomery County). He was a Town Clerk in Johnstown in 1814, 1816 and 1817 . Between 1818 and 1822 and between 1826 and 1829 he served as a county supervisor . He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1822 .

As a result of a fragmentation of the Democratic Republican Party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), he joined the Adams-Clay faction. In the 1822 congressional elections for the 18th Congress , Cady was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the 16th electoral district of New York , where he succeeded Joseph Kirkland on March 4, 1823 . Since he on a run again in 1824 renounced, he left the after March 3, 1825 Congress of.

After his time in Congress, he went back to his practice as a lawyer in Johnstown. Between 1840 and 1846 he was a district attorney in Fulton County . He was Justice of the Peace in Johnstown in 1853. He died there on January 5, 1854 and was then buried in the cemetery of the same name.

family

He was married to Maira Caroline Livingston (1794–1833), daughter of Catharine Marsh (1772–1854) and Beekman Livingston (1762–1842). The couple had four children together:

• Livingston Cady (1816-1846)
• David B. Cady (1820-1895)
• Anna (Cady) Pomeroy (* 1822)
• John Watts Cady (1825-1859)

literature

• Franklin Benjamin Hough, "The New York civil list," Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 71, 198, 263 and 374.

Web links

• John W. Cady in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John W. Cady in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• John Watts Cady on the iment.com website