Silas Stow

Silas Stow (born December 21, 1773 in Middlefield , Colony of Connecticut , † January 19, 1827 in Lowville , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1811 and 1813 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Silas Stow was born in Middlefield about a year and a half before the outbreak of the War of Independence . He attended community schools. Stow studied law , was admitted to the bar, but never practiced. He moved to Lowville, Lewis County , where he worked in agriculture. Then he worked as a land agent for Nicholas Low . He moved to Oneida County in 1797 . On January 28, 1801, he was appointed a judge in Oneida County. He later returned to Lewis County.

As an opponent of an overly strong central government, he joined the Democratic-Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson at that time . In the congressional elections of 1810 for the 12th Congress he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the tenth constituency of New York , where he succeeded John Nicholson on March 4, 1811 . He retired from the after 3 March 1813 Congress of.

After his time in Congress, he served as a sheriff in Lewis County in 1814 and 1815 . He was a judge in the same county between 1815 and 1823. He died in Lowville on January 19, 1827, and was then buried in the East State Street Burying Ground .

literature

• Franklin Benjamin Hough, "The New York civil list," Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 69, 91 and 361.

Web links

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