Horace Wheaton

Horace Wheaton (born February 24, 1803 in New Milford , Connecticut , † June 23, 1882 in Syracuse , New York ) was an American politician . Between 1843 and 1847 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Horace Wheaton was born in Litchfield County about nine years before the outbreak of the British-American War . The family moved to Pompey , Onondaga County in 1810 . There he received a modest education and graduated from the Pompey Academy . Then he went about commercial business. In 1834 he was a member of the New York State Assembly . He was part of the commission responsible for building the railway line between Syracuse and Utica . In 1840 he became postmaster at Pompey - a post he held until 1842. He was Pompey's supervisor and town treasurer. Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party . In the congressional elections of 1842 for the 28th Congress Wheaton was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 24th  constituency of New York , where he succeeded Christopher Morgan on March 4, 1843 . He was re-elected once. Since it to a re-election bid in 1846 renounced, he left the after March 3, 1847 Congress of. His last year in the US House of Representatives was overshadowed by the Mexican-American War . During this time he moved to Syracuse in 1846. Between 1851 and 1853 he was mayor there and in 1857 and 1858 city treasurer. Then he traded in household goods and saddlery. He also went about commercial business. He died on June 23, 1882 in Syracuse and was then buried in Oakwood Cemetery .

Web links

• Horace Wheaton in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Horace Wheaton on The Political Graveyard website