Amos Tuck

Amos Tuck

Amos Tuck (born August 2, 1810 in Parsonsfield , York County , Massachusetts , †  December 11, 1879 in Exeter , New Hampshire ) was an American politician . Between 1847 and 1853 he represented the state of New Hampshire in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Born in what is now the state of Maine, Amos Tuck attended Effingham Academy and Hampton Academy . He then studied until 1835 at Dartmouth College in Hanover . After a subsequent law degree and his admission to the bar in 1838, he began to practice in Exeter in his new profession. He became a curator of Dartmouth College. Between 1836 and 1838 he directed the Hampton Academy.

Politically, he first became a member of the Democratic Party . He was elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives as their candidate in 1842 . In 1844 he fell out with party leaders for advocating slavery . He was then expelled from the party.

In 1846, Tuck was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington as an independent candidate in the first district of New Hampshire . There he took over from Moses Norris on March 4, 1847 . In 1848 he was re-elected as a Free Soil Party candidate . Another two years later he was elected to Congress as a Whigs candidate for a third term . This allowed him to spend three consecutive terms in the US House of Representatives until March 3, 1853. In the elections of 1852 he was defeated by the Democrat George W. Kittredge . These years were overshadowed by heated discussions about the question of slavery.

After his tenure in Congress, Amos Tuck became a co-founder of the Republican Party in New Hampshire. In the years 1856 and 1860 he was a delegate to the respective Republican National Conventions , on which John C. Fremont and Abraham Lincoln were nominated as presidential candidates of the party. In the spring of 1861 Tuck was a delegate at a conference in the federal capital, Washington, at which unsuccessful attempts were made to prevent the outbreak of the civil war . During the war he was stationed as a naval officer in Boston Harbor from 1861 to 1865 . After the war Tuck worked as a lawyer again and got into the railroad business. He died in Exeter on December 11, 1879.

Web links

• Amos Tuck in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Amos Tuck in the database of Find a Grave (English)