Daniel B. St. John

Daniel Bennett St. John (born October 8, 1808 in Sharon , Connecticut , † February 18, 1890 in New York City ) was an American politician . Between 1847 and 1849 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Daniel Bennett St. John was born and raised in Sharon approximately four years before the outbreak of the British-American War . He then went on to do commercial business and in 1831 real estate business in Monticello . In 1840 he was a member of the New York State Assembly .

Politically, he was a member of the Whig Party at the time. In the 1846 congressional elections for the 30th Congress , St. John was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the ninth constituency of New York , where he succeeded Archibald C. Niven on March 4, 1847 . He retired from the after March 3, 1849 Congress of.

After his time in Congress, he moved to Newburgh . In 1860 he took part as a delegate at the Constitutional Union National Convention . In 1860 he ran unsuccessfully as a Democrat for the 37th Congress . He then sat in the New York Senate in 1875 . The following year he attended the Democratic National Convention in St. Louis as a delegate . St. John was the chief registrar in the New York State Banking Department . He died on February 18, 1890 in New York City and was then buried in Woodlawn Cemetery , Newburgh.

literature

• Franklin Benjamin Hough, "The New York civil list," Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 59, 75, 89, 224, 237 and 301.

Web links

• Daniel B. St. John in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Daniel B. St. John in the database of Find a Grave (English)