James Porter (politician, 1787)

James Porter (born April 18, 1787 in Williamstown , Massachusetts , † February 7, 1839 in Albany , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1817 and 1819 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

James Porter was born in Williamstown about four years after the War of Independence ended . He graduated from Williams College , Williamstown in 1810 . Then he studied law . After receiving his license to practice law, he began practicing in Skaneateles . He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1814 and 1815 .

As an opponent of an overly strong central government, he joined the Democratic-Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson at that time . In the congressional elections of 1816 for the 15th Congress , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 19th electoral district of New York , where he succeeded Victory Birdseye on March 4, 1817 . Since he on a run again in 1818 renounced, he left the after March 3, 1819 Congress of.

After his time at Congress he went back to his practice as a lawyer. Between 1822 and 1824 he was guardianship and probate judge ( surrogate ) in Onondaga County . He then moved to Albany, where he worked as a registrar at the New York Court of Chancery until his death on February 7, 1839 . His body was buried in the Green-Wood Cemetery in the then still independent city of Brooklyn .

Web links

• James Porter in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• James Porter in the database of Find a Grave (English)