Gideon Barstow

Gideon Barstow (born September 7, 1783 in Mattapoisett , Massachusetts , †  March 26, 1852 in St. Augustine , Florida ) was an American politician . Between 1821 and 1823 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Gideon Barstow attended public schools in his home country. Between 1799 and 1801 he studied at Brown University in Providence ( Rhode Island ). After studying medicine and becoming a doctor, he began to work in this profession in Salem . At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Republican Party . In 1820 he was a delegate to a meeting to revise the Massachusetts Constitution . In the congressional election of the same year , Barstow was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of Massachusetts , where he succeeded Nathaniel Silsbee on March 4, 1821 . Since he renounced another candidacy in 1822, he could only complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1823 .

Between 1823 and 1837 Barstow sat several times as a member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts . In 1827 and 1834 he was also a member of the State Senate . In the presidential election of 1832 he was the elector for Henry Clay . In the 1830s, Gideon Barstow became a member of the Whig Party . He later moved to St. Augustine, Florida for health reasons, where he died on March 26, 1852.

Web links

• Gideon Barstow in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Gideon Barstow in the database of Find a Grave (English)