Joel Yancey

Joel Yancey (born October 21, 1773 in Albemarle County , Colony of Virginia , † April 1838 in Barren County , Kentucky ) was an American politician . Between 1827 and 1831 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Joel Yancey was born in Virginia and later settled in Kentucky. There he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson . Between 1809 and 1811 he was an MP in the Kentucky House of Representatives ; from 1816 to 1820 and again between 1824 and 1827 he was a member of the State Senate . In the 1820s he joined the movement around the future President Andrew Jackson , from which the Democratic Party emerged in 1828 .

In the congressional election of 1826 Yancey was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the tenth constituency of Kentucky , where he succeeded Francis Johnson on March 4, 1827 . After re-election in 1828, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1831 . Until 1829 these were marked by the quarrels between the supporters of his party and those of President John Quincy Adams . Since President Jackson took office in 1829, there has been heated debate within and outside of Congress about its policies. It was about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act , the conflict with the state of South Carolina , which culminated in the nullification crisis , and the banking policy of the president. Yancey had chaired the Department of Post's Expenditures Committee since 1829.

In the elections of 1830 he was defeated by Christopher Tompkins . Then he withdrew from politics.

Web links

• Joel Yancey in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)