Arunah Metcalf

Arunah Metcalf (born August 15, 1771 in Colony of Connecticut , † August 15, 1848 in Otsego (now Cooperstown ), New York ) was an American politician . Between 1811 and 1813 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Arunah Metcalf, son of Lydia Bourne (1734–1779) and Zebulon Metcalf (1729–1802), was born in Connecticut about two years before the outbreak of the War of Independence . He attended community schools. In 1793 he married Eunice Williams (1775-1844), daughter of Lucy Walsworth and Captain Veach (Vetch) Williams. The couple had five children together. Nathan and Orlando were born in Connecticut. In 1802 the family moved to New York and settled on a high mountain range over Otsego Lake , now known as Metcalf Hill . Mary, Susannah and Lucien T. were born there.

As an opponent of an overly strong central government, he joined the Democratic-Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson at that time . In the congressional elections of 1810 for the 12th Congress he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the twelfth constituency of New York , where he succeeded Erastus Root after March 4, 1811 . He retired from the after 3 March 1813 Congress of.

Between 1814 and 1816 he was a member of the New York State Assembly . He was President of the Otsego County Agricultural Society in 1818 . In 1819 he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the New York Senate . He was back in the New York State Assembly in 1828. He died on August 15, 1848 in Cooperstown.

literature

• Franklin Benjamin Hough: "The New York civil list," Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 69, 86, 190f, 207 and 291.

Web links

• Arunah Metcalf in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Arunah Metcalf in the database of Find a Grave (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Eunice Williams Metcalf in the Find A Grave database