David Naar
David Naar (born November 6, 1800 in Wisconsin , † February 25, 1880 in Trenton , New Jersey ) was an American journalist and first Jewish mayor of a US city.
Life
Naar came from a Jewish family from Portugal who was expelled from Spain in 1492 . After attending school, he worked as a merchant in the West Indies before setting up a commission and commission business with his brothers in New York City , which was destroyed by a fire in 1835. He then settled as a farmer in Elizabethtown , later known as Elizabeth, but soon became a recognized public speaker because of his literacy and rhetorical skills. Between 1842 and 1845 he was Mayor of Elizabeth. This made him the first US mayor of Jewish origin.
As part of the US presidential election in 1844 , he accompanied James Buchanan to election campaign events in New Jersey and was appointed consul in Saint Thomas , a major trading center at the time , after Buchanan became Secretary of State in the cabinet of US President James K. Polk .
On his return in 1848 he was first again active as a public speaker and then again Mayor of Elizabeth in 1849, before he was secretary of the New Jersey General Assembly between 1851 and 1852 . In 1853 he became the owner of the Trenton newspaper, True American , which he made into a major and opinion-forming New Jersey newspaper. In 1865 Naar, who was also a self-confessed Freemason, was New Jersey State Treasurer for a time .
literature
- Naar, David . In: James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (Eds.): Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography . tape 4 : Lodge - Pickens . D. Appleton and Company, New York 1888, p. 475 (English, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Devin Naar: Tracing the Origins of the Naars of New Jersey: A Personal Odyssey . jewishgen.org
- Elizabeth Through The Ages
Individual evidence
- ↑ Facts & First In: Homepage of the City of Elizabeth (New Jersey). Retrieved July 19, 2020.
- ↑ More About Elizabeth, New Jersey
- ^ New Jersey. jewishvirtuallibrary.org
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Naar, David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American journalist and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 6, 1800 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wisconsin |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 25, 1880 |
| Place of death | Trenton , New Jersey |