William McCoy

William McCoy (* at Warrenton , Fauquier County , Virginia ; †  1864 in Charlottesville , Virginia) was an American politician . Between 1811 and 1833 he represented the state of Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Nothing is known about William McCoy's youth and schooling. He joined the Democratic Republican Party and sat in the Virginia House of Representatives from 1798 to 1804 . In the 1820s he joined the movement around Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party founded by this in 1828 .

In the 1810 congressional election , McCoy was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of Virginia , where he succeeded Jacob Swoope on March 4, 1811 . After ten re-elections, he was able to complete eleven legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1833 . The British-American War took place during this period . Since President Jackson took office in 1829, there has been heated debate inside and outside of Congress about its policies. It was about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act , the conflict with the state of South Carolina , which culminated in the nullification crisis , and the banking policy of the president. In 1829 and 1830, McCoy was also a delegate to a meeting to revise the Virginia constitution. Between 1827 and 1829 he chaired the Committee on Claims .

After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives, William McCoy withdrew from politics. He died in Charlottesville in 1864.

Web links

• William McCoy in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William McCoy in the database of Find a Grave (English)