Abijah Mann junior

Abijah Mann junior (born September 24, 1793 in Fairfield , New York , † September 6, 1868 in Auburn , New York) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1833 and 1837 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Abijah Mann Jr. was born in Fairfield, Herkimer County ten years after the end of the Revolutionary War . He attended community schools. Then he went about commercial business. He held the post of justice of the peace. President Andrew Jackson appointed him postmaster at Fairfield, a position he held from May 28, 1830 to January 16, 1833. He was a member of the New York State Assembly between 1828 and 1830 and in 1838 . Politically, he belonged to the Jacksonian faction.

In the 1832 congressional elections for the 23rd Congress , Mann was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the 16th electoral district of New York , where he succeeded Nathan Soule on March 4, 1833 . He was re-elected once. In 1836 he suffered a defeat in his renewed candidacy and retired after the March 3, 1837 Congress of.

Mann moved to New York City . In 1855 he ran unsuccessfully as a Republican for the post of Attorney General of New York. In 1856 he attended the Republican State Convention as a delegate . Then he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the New York Senate in 1857 . He died on September 6, 1868 in Auburn. At that point the civil war had ended for about three years.

Web links

• Abijah Mann junior in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)