Chauncey Forward

Chauncey Forward (born February 4, 1793 in Granby , Connecticut , †  October 19, 1839 in Somerset , Pennsylvania ) was an American politician . Between 1826 and 1831 he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Chauncey Forward was the younger brother of Walter Forward (1786-1852), who was among other things American Treasury Secretary and Congressman. In 1800 he moved with his father to Ohio and shortly afterwards to Greensburg , Pennsylvania. He received a classical school education. After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1817, he began to work in Somerset in this profession. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Republican Party . In the 1820s he joined the movement around the future President Andrew Jackson and the Democratic Party founded by this in 1828 . Between 1820 and 1822 he was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives .

After the resignation of MP Alexander Thomson , Forward was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he took up his new mandate on December 4, 1826. After two re-elections, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1831 . 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.

After his tenure in the US House of Representatives, Chauncey Forward was employed by the Somerset County administration as a prothonotary and recorder between 1831 and 1839 . He died on October 19, 1839 in Somerset, where he was also buried.

Web links

• Chauncey Forward in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Chauncey Forward in the database of Find a Grave (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
Alexander Thomson	United States House of Representatives for Pennsylvania (13th constituency) December 4, 1826 - March 3, 1831	George Burd