Job Durfee

Job Durfee (born September 20, 1790 in Tiverton , Rhode Island , † July 26, 1847 ibid) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1821 and 1825 he represented the second constituency of the state of Rhode Island in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Job Durfee attended the public schools of his home country and then studied until 1813 at Brown University in Providence . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1817, he began to work in this profession in his home town of Tiverton.

Durfee was a member of the Democratic Republican Party . After their dissolution in the 1820s, he joined the so-called Adams Clay Republicans, who were in opposition to Andrew Jackson and his Democratic Party . Between 1816 and 1820 Durfee was a member of the House of Representatives from Rhode Island .

In 1820 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC for the second seat of the Rhode Island State. There he took the seat on March 4, 1821, previously held by Nathaniel Hazard , who had died on December 17, 1820 . After re-election in 1822, Durfee could remain in Congress until March 3, 1825 . In the elections of 1824 he was defeated by Dutee Jerauld Pearce . In 1828 another candidacy to return to Congress failed.

Between 1826 and 1829 Durfee was again a member of the House of Representatives from Rhode Island, where he was its president since 1827. He then worked as a lawyer. In 1833 he became Associate Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court and in June 1835 he took over as Chief Justice of the latter from Samuel Eddy . He held this office until his death in 1847. Job Durfee was also known as the author of several literary works.

Web links

• Job Durfee in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Job Durfee in the database of Find a Grave (English)