George S. Catlin

George Smith Catlin (born August 24, 1808 in Harwinton , Litchfield County , Connecticut , †  December 26, 1851 in Windham , Connecticut) was an American politician . Between 1843 and 1845 he represented the third constituency of the state of Connecticut in the US House of Representatives .

Career

George Catlin attended the public schools in his homeland and then Amherst College in Massachusetts . After studying law at Litchfield Law School and being admitted to the bar in 1828, he began working in his new profession in Windham. Politically, he became a member of the Democratic Party founded by Andrew Jackson . In 1831 he was elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives. Between 1831 and 1833 he was Secretary to Governor John S. Peters . In 1842 and 1843, Catlin served as the district attorney in Windham County .

In the 1842 congressional election, George Catlin was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third district of Connecticut . There he took over from Thomas Wheeler Williams of the Whig Party on March 4, 1843 . By March 3, 1845, Catlin was serving a term in Congress that was overshadowed by the quarrels between the Whigs and President John Tyler . In terms of foreign policy, the question of the incorporation of the Republic of Texas , which had been independent of Mexico since 1836, into the United States was in the foreground of the Congress discussions.

After his tenure in the US House of Representatives, Catlin was re-elected to the Connecticut Parliament in 1846. In 1848 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of governor of his state. In 1850 he was elected to the Connecticut Senate. Catlin was a district judge in Windham County from 1850 to 1851. He died on December 26, 1851 in Windham and was buried there.

Web links

• George S. Catlin in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• George S. Catlin in the database of Find a Grave (English)