Ebenezer Huntington's

Ebenezer Huntington (born December 26, 1754 in Norwich , Colony of Connecticut , † June 17, 1834 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1810 and 1811 and from 1817 to 1819 he represented the state of Connecticut in the US House of Representatives .

Career

After receiving a good primary education, Ebenezer Huntington attended Yale College until 1775 . At the outbreak of the War of Independence , he joined the American movement and became a soldier in the Continental Army . He later became an officer in the US regular army . In 1798 he was called back into active service as brigadier general in the face of an impending war with France . He held this post between July 19, 1798 and June 15, 1800.

Politically, Huntington was a member of the Federalist Party founded by Alexander Hamilton . After the resignation of Congressman Samuel W. Dana , who held the eighth seat of the State of Connecticut in the US House of Representatives, Huntington was elected as his successor to Congress in the state-wide by- election. There, between October 11, 1810, and March 3, 1811, he ended the legislative term of his predecessor. In the congressional elections of 1818 he was re-elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington for the first seat of his state . There he took over from Benjamin Tallmadge on March 4, 1817 . By March 3, 1819, he served a full term in Congress; then Gideon Tomlinson of the Democratic Republican Party took over his mandate.

After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives, Huntington withdrew from politics. He died in June 1834 in his native Norwich and was buried there.

Web links

• Ebenezer Huntington in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Ebenezer Huntington in the database of Find a Grave (English)