Daniel D. Barnard

Daniel Dewey Barnard (born July 16, 1797 in Sheffield , Massachusetts , † April 24, 1861 in Albany , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician . He represented New York State in the US House of Representatives between 1827 and 1829 and between 1839 and 1845 .

Career

Daniel Dewey Barnard was born in Sheffield just before the end of the 18th century. He attended community schools and graduated from Williams College , Williamstown in 1818 . Barnard was studying law . He was admitted to the bar in 1821 and then began practicing in Rochester, New York. In 1826 he was prosecuting attorney in Monroe County .

As a result of a fragmentation of the Democratic Republican Party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), he joined the Adams faction at that time . In the 1826 congressional elections for the 20th Congress , Barnard was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 27th  constituency of New York , where he succeeded Moses Hayden on March 4, 1827 . In 1828 he was defeated in his re-election bid and was eliminated from the after 3 March 1829 Congress of.

He traveled to Europe in 1831. On his return he moved to Albany in 1832, where he again worked as a lawyer. In 1838 he was a member of the New York State Assembly .

In 1838 he ran in the 10th constituency of New York for the 26th Congress . After a successful election, he succeeded Albert Gallup on March 4, 1839 . He was re-elected once. As a congressman at the time, he presided over the Committee on the Judiciary in the 27th Congress . In 1842 he ran successfully in the 13th constituency of New York for the 28th Congress , where he succeeded Thomas A. Tomlinson on March 4, 1843 . Since he refused to run again in 1844 , he left the Congress after March 3, 1845.

On September 3, 1850, President Millard Fillmore appointed him to succeed Edward A. Hannegan as envoy to Prussia - a position he held until September 21, 1853. After returning to the United States in 1853, he retired from active business and pursued literary activities. He died on April 24, 1861 in Albany and was then buried in the Albany Rural Cemetery . Civil war had broken out twelve days earlier .

literature

• Franklin Benjamin Hough: "The New York civil list," Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 71, 73f, 220 and 257.

Web links

• Daniel D. Barnard in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Daniel D. Barnard in the database of Find a Grave (English)