Churchill C. Cambreleng

Historical markings show Cambreleng's birthplace.

Churchill Caldom Cambreleng (born October 24, 1786 in Washington , North Carolina , † April 30, 1862 in Huntington , New York ) was an American politician . Between 1821 and 1839 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Churchill Caldom Cambreleng was born about three years after the end of the Revolutionary War in Washington and spent the first few years there. He attended school in New Bern . His family then in 1802 moved to New York City where he became a clerk ( clerk ) was a commercial business and pursued. Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson .

In the congressional elections of 1820 Cambreleng was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of New York , where he succeeded Henry Meigs and Peter H. Wendover , who previously jointly made the second district, on March 4, 1821 represented in the US House of Representatives. As a result of a fragmentation of his party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), his political affiliation changed several times. In the congressional elections of 1822 he was elected to the US House of Representatives as a supporter of the Crawford faction in the third constituency of New York, where he succeeded Jeremiah H. Pierson on March 4, 1823 . He was re-elected seven times in a row. He was a member of the Jacksonian faction when he was re -elected in 1824 and the Democratic Party when he was re-elected in 1836 . Because he suffered a defeat in his tenth candidacy in 1838 , he left the Congress after March 3, 1839 . During this time he chaired the Committee on Commerce ( 20th to 22nd Congress ), the Committee on Foreign Affairs ( 23rd Congress ) and most recently the Committee on Ways and Means ( 24th to 25th Congress ).

Cambreleng was appointed US Ambassador to Russia by President Van Buren on May 20, 1840, succeeding George M. Dallas - a position he held until July 13, 1841. He then took part in the New York Constituent Assembly in 1846 . When he died near Huntington on April 30, 1862, the second year of the Civil War began shortly before . His body was then interred in Brooklyn's Greenwood Cemetery .

Web links

• Churchill C. Cambreleng in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Churchill C. Cambreleng in the database by finding a Grave (English)
• Churchill C. Cambreleng on the NC Gen website