Jacob Tyson

Jacob Tyson (born October 8, 1773 in Staten Island , New York Province, † July 16, 1848 ibid) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1823 and 1825 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Jacob Tyson was born and raised in Staten Island about a year and a half before the outbreak of the War of Independence . He attended community schools and later moved to Richmond . Tyson studied law and began practicing as a lawyer after receiving his license. He served as Town Supervisor of Castleton between 1811 and 1821 and as a judge in Richmond County between 1822 and 1840 .

As a result of a fragmentation of the Democratic Republican Party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), he joined the Crawford faction. In the congressional election of 1822 , Tyson was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the second constituency of New York , where he succeeded Churchill C. Cambreleng and John J. Morgan , who previously held the joint seat on March 4, 1823 second district in the US House of Representatives. Since it to a re-election in 1824 renounced, he left the after March 3, 1825 Congress of. He then sat in the New York Senate in 1828 . He died on July 16, 1848 in Staten Island and was then buried in the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church Cemetery in Port Richmond .

literature

• Weed, Parsons & Co .: The New York Civil List , 1858, pp. 71, 92, 127, 146 and 364.

Web links

• Jacob Tyson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)