Henry Southard

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Henry Southard (born October 7, 1747 in Hempstead , New York Province, †  May 22, 1842 in Basking Ridge , New Jersey ) was an American politician . Between 1801 and 1821 he represented the state of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives twice .

Career

Henry Southard attended public schools in his home country and at Basking Ridge, where he had moved with his parents in 1755. After that he worked on a farm. During the War of Independence , he served first as a simple soldier and later as a driver in the Continental Army . After the war, Southard went back to farming. From 1787 to 1792 he served as justice of the peace in his homeland. In the late 1790s he became a member of the Democratic Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson . Between 1797 and 1799 and again in 1811 he was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly .

In the New Jersey state-wide congressional elections of 1800 , Southard was elected for the fifth seat of his state in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Franklin Davenport on March 4, 1801 . After four re-elections, he was able to complete five legislative periods in Congress by March 3, 1811 . From 1809 to 1811 he was chairman of the Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business . In his first days as a congressman, the Louisiana Purchase made by President Jefferson in 1803 and the ratification of the twelfth amendment in 1804 fell .

In 1814 Southard was elected in the fourth district of New Jersey to succeed Richard Stockton again in Congress, where he was able to complete three more terms between March 4, 1815 and March 3, 1821. After his time in the US House of Representatives, he returned to agriculture. He died on May 22, 1842 in Basking Ridge at the age of 94. Two of his sons also pursued political careers. Isaac Southard (1783-1850) also sat in Congress for New Jersey. His brother Samuel (1787-1842) was, among other things, US Senator , Secretary of the Navy of the United States and Governor of New Jersey.

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SURNAME Southard, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1747
PLACE OF BIRTH Hempstead , Province of New York
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1842
Place of death Basking Ridge , New Jersey