Jeremiah W. Dwight

Jeremiah W. Dwight

Jeremiah Wilbur Dwight (born April 17, 1819 in Cincinnatus , New York , † November 26, 1885 in Dryden , New York) was an American politician . Between 1877 and 1883 he represented the state of New York in the US House of Representatives . Congressman John Wilbur Dwight was his son.

Career

Jeremiah Wilbur Dwight was born in Cortland County about four years after the end of the British-American War . The family moved to Caroline in 1830 and from there to Dryden, Tompkins County in 1836 . He attended county schools and Burhan's School in Dryden. Then he went about commercial and agricultural activities, but was also active in the real estate business and the manufacture and sale of construction timber. He chaired the Dryden Town Council in 1857 and 1858 . Then he sat in the New York State Assembly in 1860 and 1861 . After the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, Governor Edwin D. Morgan appointed him to the Senatorial District War Committee . Politically, he belonged to the Republican Party . Dwight attended the Republican National Conventions as a delegate in 1868, 1872, 1876, 1880, and 1884 . He served for many years as a director, board member and vice president of Southern Central Railroad .

In the congressional elections of 1876 for the 45th Congress Dwight was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 28th  constituency of New York , where he succeeded Thomas C. Platt on March 4, 1877 . He was re-elected twice in a row. Since he on a run again in 1882 renounced, he left the after March 3, 1883 Congress of.

After his time at Congress, he resumed his previous business activities. He died on November 26, 1885 in Dryden. His body was then interred in Green Hills Cemetery .

Web links

• Jeremiah W. Dwight in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Jeremiah W. Dwight in the database of Find a Grave (English)