Ezra Meech

Ezra Meech

Ezra Meech (born July 26, 1773 in New London , Colony of Connecticut , † September 23, 1856 in Shelburne , Vermont ) was an American politician . Between 1819 and 1821 he represented the sixth and from 1825 to 1827 the third constituency of the state of Vermont in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Ezra Meech attended public schools in Hinesburg, Vermont, where he moved in 1785. He then went into the fur trade and in Canada into the timber transport business. He later moved to Shelburne, where he worked in agriculture and mainly in cattle breeding. Politically, Meech joined the Democratic Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson . Between 1805 and 1807 he was an MP in the Vermont House of Representatives . In the 1818 congressional elections, he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the sixth district of Vermont . There he took over from William Hunter on March 4, 1819on. Until March 3, 1821, he had only one term in Congress .

From 1822 to 1823, Meech was the presiding judge in the Chittenden County District Court in Vermont. After the dissolution of his party in the 1820s, he joined Andrew Jackson and was re-elected to the US House of Representatives as his supporter in the congressional elections of 1824. This time he represented the fourth constituency of Vermont. Until March 3, 1827, he spent another term in Congress. As a supporter of Jackson, he became a member of the Democratic Party founded by Jackson in 1828 . In the years 1830, 1831, 1832 and 1833 he was each unsuccessful candidate of his party in the gubernatorial elections in Vermont.

In the further course, Meech changed his party affiliation and became a member of the Whigs . In 1840 he was one of their electors to officially elect William Henry Harrison as president. After that, Meech withdrew from politics and returned to his agricultural interests. He died in September 1856 and was buried in Shelburne.

Web links

• Ezra Meech in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Ezra Meech in the database of Find a Grave (English)