Silas Talbot

Silas Talbot

Silas Talbot (born January 11, 1751 in Dighton , Briston County , Province of Massachusetts Bay , †  June 30, 1813 in New York City ) was an American officer and politician . Between 1793 and 1795 he represented the state of New York in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Silas Talbot attended preparatory schools and then was a seaman on a coastal freighter for some time. Then he worked in Providence ( Rhode Iceland ) in trade. During the War of Independence , he first served in the Continental Army , where he made it to lieutenant colonel in 1778. From 1779 he served in the Continental Navy , which later became the United States Navy . In November 1780 he was taken prisoner by the British, from which he was released a year later during a prisoner exchange. After his return to the United States Talbot initially lived in Philadelphia ( Pennsylvania ) and then in Albany in New York State. There he worked in agriculture. Politically, he was a supporter of the federal government under President George Washington ( Pro-Administration Group ). He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1792 and 1793 .

In the congressional elections of 1792 Talbot was elected in the then newly established tenth electoral district of New York to the US House of Representatives, which was then still in Philadelphia , where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1793. Until March 3, 1795 he was able to complete a legislative period in Congress . Between 1798 and 1801 he was a captain officer in the US Navy. There he commanded the ship USS Constitution . Silas Talbot died on June 30, 1813 in New York, where he was also buried.

Web links

• Silas Talbot in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
new constituency	United States House Representative for New York (10th Constituency) March 4, 1793 - March 3, 1795	William Cooper