Cullen Sawtelle

Cullen Sawtelle (born September 25, 1805 in Norridgewock , Massachusetts , † November 10, 1887 in Englewood , New Jersey ) was an American politician . Between 1845 and 1847 and again from 1849 to 1851 he represented the state of Maine in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Cullen Sawtelle was born in 1805 in Norridgewock, which was then part of Massachusetts. He initially enjoyed a private education and then studied until 1825 at Bowdoin College in Brunswick . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1828, he began to practice in Norridgewock in his new profession. Between 1830 and 1838 he was the administrator of the estate.

Politically, Sawtelle was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1842 and 1844 he was a member of the Maine Senate . In 1844 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of Maine , where he succeeded Benjamin White on March 4, 1845 . Until March 3, 1847 he was able to complete a legislative period in Congress . This was determined by the events of the Mexican-American War . During this time, Sawtelle was chairman of the Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business . In the next election, Sawtelle had to give way to his party colleague Ephraim K. Smart , who then exercised this mandate until March 3, 1849. In the elections of 1848 Sawtelle managed to win back his mandate. This enabled him to complete another full legislative term in Congress between March 4, 1849 and March 3, 1851. He was chairman of the committee that dealt with the claims on the federal government from the revolutionary era.

After leaving the House of Representatives, Sawtelle withdrew from politics. In the following decades until 1882 he worked as a finance manager for various trading companies in New York . He died in Englewood on November 10, 1887.

Web links

• Cullen Sawtelle in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Cullen Sawtelle in the database of Find a Grave (English)