Jeremiah McLene

Jeremiah McLene (born 1767 in Cumberland County , Province of Pennsylvania , †  March 19, 1837 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1833 and 1837 he represented the state of Ohio in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Jeremiah McLene attended public schools in his home country. Despite his youth, he took part in the War of Independence . He later moved to Chillicothe , Ohio, where he embarked on a political career. In 1807 and 1808 he was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives ; between 1808 and 1831 he was Secretary of State in his new home state. In the 1820s he joined the movement around the future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party founded by this in 1828 .

In the congressional election of 1832 , McLene was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the eighth constituency of Ohio, where he succeeded William Stanbery on March 4, 1833 . After re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1837 . These were determined by the discussions about President Jackson's policies. In 1836, McLene was not re-elected. He died on March 19, 1837, about three weeks after leaving Congress, in Washington and was buried in the local congressional cemetery.

Remarks

1. ↑ According to his congressional biography, he was major general in the state militia; however, this information must be critically examined. At the end of the war in 1783 he was just 16 years old. It is unlikely that he was a major general at that age.

Web links

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