Benjamin Gorham

Benjamin Gorham (born February 13, 1775 in Charlestown , Province of Massachusetts Bay , †  September 27, 1855 in Boston , Massachusetts ) was an American politician . Between 1820 and 1835 he represented the state of Massachusetts three times in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Benjamin Gorham was the son of Nathaniel Gorham (1738–1796), who was a member and president of the Continental Congress . He attended the public schools in his home country and then studied at Harvard University until 1795 . After studying law and being admitted to the bar, he began working in this profession in Boston. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Republican Party . Between 1814 and 1818 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts ; from 1819 to 1821 he was a member of the State Senate .

After the resignation of Congressman Jonathan Mason , Gorham was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC when he was due by-election for the first Massachusetts seat , where he took up his new mandate on November 6, 1820. After being re-elected, he was initially able to remain there until March 3, 1823. In 1823 he was re-elected to the Massachusetts Senate. In the 1820s he joined the movement against future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the short-lived National Republican Party .

After the resignation of Daniel Webster , Gorham was re-elected to Congress, where he could remain between July 23, 1827 and March 3, 1831. In the congressional elections of 1832 Gorham was re -elected to the United States House of Representatives in the first constituency of Massachusetts, where he succeeded Nathan Appleton , who had replaced him two years earlier, on March 4, 1833 . By March 3, 1835, he was able to complete his last legislative term in Congress . Since President Jackson took office in 1829, there has been heated debate inside and outside of Congress about its policies. It was about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act , the conflict with the state of South Carolina , which culminated in the nullification crisis , and the banking policy of the president.

In 1841 Benjamin Gorham was once again a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Otherwise he practiced as a lawyer again. He died in Boston on September 27, 1855.

Web links

• Benjamin Gorham in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Benjamin Gorham in the database of Find a Grave (English)