James Lent

James Lent (born 1782 in Newtown (now Elmhurst ), New York , † February 22, 1833 in Washington, DC ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1829 and 1833 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

James Lent was born and raised in Newtown, Long Island , in the penultimate year of the War of Independence . During his law degree , he did local trade. On February 5, 1823, he became a judge in Queens . Politically, he belonged to the Jacksonian faction. In the congressional elections of 1828 Lent was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington DC in the first constituency of New York, where he succeeded Silas Wood on March 4, 1829 . As a result, he resigned from his post as a judge. After a successful re-election in 1830 , he renounced a third candidacy in 1832 . However, he died before the end of his second term on February 22, 1833 in Washington DC As a congressman he had from 1831 until his death, presided over the Committee on the issues of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State ). His body was first buried in the Congressional Cemetery , but later reburied in the cemetery of the First Presbyterian Church of Newtown in Elmhurst . This cemetery was then demolished in 1958 and the remaining remains, mostly unidentified, were transferred to the Cemetery of the Evergreens in Brooklyn . It is uncertain whether Lent's remains were among them.

Web links

• James Lent in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• James Lent in the database of Find a Grave (English)