Governor Kemble

Governor Kemble (born January 25, 1786 in New York City , † September 16, 1875 in Cold Spring , New York ) was an American politician . Between 1837 and 1841 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Governor Kemble was born in New York City about two and a half years after the end of the Revolutionary War . He enjoyed a good education and graduated from Columbia College (now Columbia University ) in New York City in 1803 . After that he worked in agriculture. During a visit to Spain in 1816, he studied the process of cannon casting . After returning to the United States, he set up a cannon foundry in Cold Spring. During the Second Barbarian War with Tripoli , he served in the Mediterranean as a naval agent .

Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party . In the congressional elections of 1836 Kemble was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth constituency of New York , where he succeeded Aaron Ward on March 4, 1837 . He was re-elected once. Since he on a run again in 1840 renounced, he left the after March 3, 1841 Congress of.

He then took part in the Democratic National Conventions in 1844 and 1860 , and in the New York Constituent Assembly in 1846 . In his final years he promoted the Hudson River Railroad and the Panama Railway . In 1854, Governor Kemble was elected Honorary NA of the National Academy of Design . He died on September 16, 1875 in Cold Spring and was buried there.

Individual evidence

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Web links

Governor Kemble on Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
Governor Kemble in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

Governor Kemble in the database of Find a Grave (English)

personal data
SURNAME	Kemble, governor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician
DATE OF BIRTH	January 25, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH	New York City
DATE OF DEATH	September 16, 1875
Place of death	Cold Spring , New York

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