Daniel Hiester (politician, 1747)

Daniel Hiester (born June 25, 1747 in Berks County , Province of Pennsylvania , †  March 7, 1804 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1789 and 1796 he represented the state of Pennsylvania and from 1801 to 1804 the state of Maryland in the US House of Representatives .

Life

Daniel Hiester came from a well-known family of politicians. He was the younger brother of Congressman John Hiester (1745-1821). His younger brother Gabriel (1749-1824) was a soldier and politician in the fight for independence during the American Revolution . His cousin Joseph Hiester (1752-1832) was a Congressman and Governor of Pennsylvania. He was also the uncle of Congressmen William Hiester (1818–1878) and Daniel Hiester Jr. (1774–1834).

He attended the public schools in his home country and then worked in trade in Montgomery County . During the War of Independence he was a colonel and later a brigadier general in the state militia. Between 1784 and 1786 Hiester was a member of the Executive Council of the State of Pennsylvania. In 1787 he was a member of a commission to settle a border dispute between the states of Pennsylvania and Connecticut .

Politically, Hiester was in opposition to the later President George Washington ( anti-administration faction ). In the late 1790s he became a member of the Democratic Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson . In the congressional elections of 1789 he was elected in the fourth constituency of Pennsylvania to the US House of Representatives, which was still in session in New York at the time , where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1789. After three re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his resignation on July 1, 1796. Since 1793 he represented the sixth district of his state there. In 1791, the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, also known as the Bill of Rights , were ratified .

Hiester's grave in Washington DC

After his resignation, Daniel Hiester moved to Hagerstown , Maryland. In the elections of 1800 he was re-elected to Congress for the fourth constituency of the state of Maryland, which now met in the new federal capital Washington DC. There he replaced George Baer on March 4, 1801 . After being re-elected, he was able to exercise this mandate until his death on March 7, 1804. During this time, the Louisiana Purchase made by President Jefferson fell , through which the territory of the United States was considerably enlarged. After a special election, his mandate fell to Roger Nelson .

Web links

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

• Daniel Hiester in the database of Find a Grave (English)