Albert Constable

Albert Constable (born June 3, 1805 in Charlestown , Cecil County , Maryland , †  September 18, 1855 in Camden , New Jersey ) was an American politician . Between 1845 and 1847 he represented the state of Maryland in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Albert Constable attended the public schools in his homeland. After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1829, he began to work in Bel Air in this profession. He later moved to Baltimore and then to Perryville . At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party .

In the congressional election of 1844 Constable was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fifth constituency of Maryland , where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1845. By March 3, 1847, he was able to complete a legislative term in Congress that was marked by the events of the Mexican-American War . From 1851 Constable served in Maryland as a district judge. He died in Camden on September 18, 1855.

Web links

• Albert Constable in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)