Jeromus Johnson

Jeromus Johnson (born November 2, 1775 in Wallabout , Brooklyn , New York Province, † September 7, 1846 in Goshen , New York ) was an American politician . Between 1825 and 1829 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Jeromus Johnson was born in Wallabout in the first year of the Revolutionary War . He attended public schools. He later moved to New York City , where he did commercial business. He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1822 . Politically, he belonged to the Jacksonian faction. In the congressional elections of 1824 Johnson was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of New York , where he succeeded Churchill C. Cambreleng , John J. Morgan and Peter Sharpe , which on March 4, 1825 previously represented the third district in the US House of Representatives together. He was re-elected once and then dropped out after the March 3, 1829 Congress of. While serving as Congressman, he chaired the Committee on Public Expenditures ( 20th Congress ). On May 26, 1830, he was appointed Appraiser of Merchandise in the Port of New York , a position he held until his resignation in 1840, when he retired from active business and moved to Goshen. He died there on September 7, 1846 and was then buried in a private cemetery on his property. His brother was Jeremiah Johnson (1766-1852), mayor of the then still independent city of Brooklyn.

literature

• Weed, Parsons & Co .: The New York Civil List , 1858, pp. 71f, 198 and 284.
• William Lyon Mackenzie: The Lifes and Opinions of Benjamin Franklin Butler and Jesse Hoyt , Cook & Co., 1845. pp. 80ff.

Web links

• Jeromus Johnson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Jeromus Johnson in the database of Find a Grave (English)