Egbert Ten Eyck

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Egbert Ten Eyck (born April 18, 1779 in Schodack , New York , † April 11, 1844 in Watertown , New York) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1823 and 1825 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Egbert Ten Eyck was born in Rensselaer County during the American Revolutionary War . In 1799 he graduated from Williams College in Williamstown ( Massachusetts ). He studied law . After receiving his license to practice law in 1807, he began practicing in Watertown. He sat in the New York State Assembly in 1812 and 1813 , where he served as a speaker . In 1816 he was a supervisor of Jefferson County and trustee of the Village of Watertown. He was one of the founders of the Jefferson County National Bank . In 1817 he held the post as First Secretary of the Jefferson County Agricultural Society . He was president of the Village of Watertown in 1820. In 1822 he took part as a delegate to the New York Constituent Assembly .

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 Crawford faction. In the congressional elections of 1822 for the 18th Congress Ten Eyck in the 20th electoral district of New York in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC chosen, where he succeeds on 4 March 1823 David Woodcock and William B. Rochester took . He was re-elected once. In the congressional election of 1824 he ran for the Jacksonian faction. However, his election was successfully challenged by Daniel Hugunin junior , so that Ten Eyck left the congress on December 15, 1825 .

After his time in Congress, he served as a judge in the Jefferson County Courts for nine years. He died on April 11, 1844 in Watertown and was then buried in Brookside Cemetery .

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Web links

  • Egbert Ten Eyck in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
personal data
SURNAME Ten Eyck, Egbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH Schodack , New York
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1844
Place of death Watertown , New York