Jetur R. Riggs

Jetur Rose Riggs (born June 20, 1809 in Drakesville , Morris County , New Jersey , †  November 5, 1869 there ) was an American politician . Between 1859 and 1861 he represented the state of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Jetur Riggs received an academic education. After a subsequent medical degree at the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons and his 1837 admission as a doctor, he began in Newfoundland , a town in Passaic County , to work in this profession. In 1844 he was one of the founders of the Medical Society in this district, of which he was president between 1846 and 1848. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . In 1836, Riggs became a member of the New Jersey General Assembly . During the gold rush , he moved to California , where he ran the hospital at Sutter's Fort . In 1852 Riggs returned to New Jersey, where he settled in Paterson . Between 1855 and 1858 he was a member of the State Senate .

In the congressional election of 1858 Riggs was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fourth constituency of New Jersey , where he succeeded John Huyler on March 4, 1859 . Since he refused to run again in 1860, he was only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1861 . These were shaped by the events in the immediate run-up to the civil war . After his time in the US House of Representatives, Riggs practiced as a doctor in Paterson. He later returned to his native Drakesville, where he died on November 5, 1869.

Web links

• Jetur R. Riggs in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Jetur R. Riggs in the database of Find a Grave (English)