Henry Meigs

Henry Meigs (born October 28, 1782 in New Haven , Connecticut , † May 20, 1861 in New York City ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1819 and 1821 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Henry Meigs, son of Clara Benjamin and Josiah Meigs , was born and raised in New Haven in the last year of the War of Independence . He attended community schools and graduated from Yale College in 1799 . Meigs studied law and began practicing law in New York City upon receiving his license to practice law. He served as an adjutant during the British-American War . After the war he was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1818 . Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson .

In the congressional elections of 1818 Meigs was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of New York , where he succeeded William Irving and Peter H. Wendover on March 4, 1819 , who previously jointly made the second district represented in the US House of Representatives. Since he refused to run again in 1820 , he left the Congress after March 3, 1821 . During his time as a congressman, he chaired the Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings .

He then served as President of the New York City Board of Aldermen in 1832 and 1833 . Meigs was a judge in one of the judicial districts of New York City and after law clerk ( clerk ) at the Court of General Sessions . He was elected recording secretary at the American Institute of the City of New York , a position he held until his death on May 20, 1861. His body was interred in St. Ann's Churchyard in Perth Amboy .

Web links

• Henry Meigs in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Meigs Family History and Genealogy