Alexander CM Pennington

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Alexander CM Pennington

Alexander Cumming McWhorter Pennington (born July 2, 1810 in Newark , New Jersey , †  January 25, 1867 in New York City ) was an American politician . Between 1853 and 1857 he represented the state of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Alexander Pennington was a cousin of William Pennington (1796-1862), who was, among other things, governor of New Jersey and speaker of the House of Representatives . He was also a great-nephew of Governor William S. Pennington (1757-1826). His son Alexander (1838-1917) was a brigadier general in the United States Army who served in the Civil War and the Spanish-American War .

Pennington attended the public schools of his home country and graduated from the US Military Academy at West Point between 1826 and 1828 . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1833, he began to work in Newark in this profession. Politically, he became a member of the Whig Party, founded in 1835 . In 1837 and 1838 Pennington was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly . From 1837 to 1840 he was a councilor in Newark. In the congressional elections of 1852 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of New Jersey , where he succeeded Democrat Rodman M. Price on March 4, 1853 .

After a re-election, this time as a candidate for the short-lived opposition party , he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1857 . These were shaped by the events leading up to the civil war. The main focus was on the question of slavery and the possibility of individual states leaving the Union under consideration by the South. From 1855 Alexander Pennington was chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee . After his time in the US House of Representatives, he moved to New York, where he died on January 25, 1867.

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SURNAME Pennington, Alexander CM
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pennington, Alexander Cumming McWhorter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH Newark , New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1867
Place of death New York City