Daniel Avery

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Daniel Avery (born September 18, 1766 in Groton , Colony of Connecticut , † January 30, 1842 in Aurora , New York ) was an American politician . He represented New York State in the US House of Representatives from 1811 to 1815 and from 1815 to 1816 .

Career

Daniel Avery was born and raised in Groton during the British colonial era. During this time he attended community schools. He enlisted as an Ensign in the Sixth Company of the Connecticut Militia Eighth Regiment , where he served until May 1794. During this time he rose from lieutenant to captain . In 1795 he moved to Aurora, Cayuga County , where he became a large landowner. He had the land cultivated by tenants. He married Alice Anne Brown from Bristol. The couple had one son: Daniel Dudley Avery (1810–1879).

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 14th electoral district of New York , where he succeeded Vincent Mathews on March 4, 1811 . In 1812 he ran in the 20th constituency of New York for the 13th Congress . After a successful election, he entered the US House of Representatives on March 4, 1813 as the first representative of the district. Since he on a run again in 1814 renounced, he left the after March 3, 1815 Congress of. However, he was elected to the US House of Representatives in a by-election on September 30, 1816, to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Enos T. Throop . On March 3, 1817, he left the Congress.

After his Congress time he managed his estate and stood for twenty years with the Land Registry in Albany in association. He died on January 30, 1842 in Aurora and was then buried in Oak Glen Cemetery . About four years later the Mexican-American War broke out.

Web links

  • Daniel Avery in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Supplement to the Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale College (1870–1880)" (PDF; 1.4 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Avery, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1766
PLACE OF BIRTH Groton , Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1842
Place of death Aurora , New York