John Adams (politician, 1778)

John Adams

John Adams (born August 26, 1778 in Oak Hill , New York , † September 25, 1854 in Catskill , New York) was an American lawyer and politician . He represented New York State in the US House of Representatives in 1815 and between 1833 and 1835 .

Life

John Adams was born and raised in Oak Hill ( Town of Durham ) during the War of Independence . During this time he attended community schools and then taught in Durham. Adams studied law . He was admitted to the bar in 1805 and then began practicing in Durham. Governor Daniel D. Tompkins appointed him guardianship and probate judge ( surrogate ) in Greene County in 1810 . Adams then sat in the New York State Assembly in 1812 and 1813 .

As an opponent of an overly strong central government, he joined the Democratic-Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson at that time . In the congressional elections of 1814 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the eighth constituency of New York , where he succeeded Samuel Sherwood on March 4, 1815 . Erastus Root challenged his election successfully because of a formal error in his registration, so that Adams left the congress after December 26, 1815 . He later joined the Jacksonian faction. In 1832 he ran for the 32nd Congress . After a successful election, he succeeded John King on March 4, 1833 . Since he refused to run again in 1834 , he left the Congress after March 3, 1835.

Adams moved to Catskill, where he worked as a lawyer until his death. In 1835 he was elected director of the Canajoharie and Catskill Railroad . He died in Catskill on September 25, 1854 and was buried in Thomson Street Cemetery . His younger brother Platt (1792-1887) was a member of the New York Senate .

literature

• Franklin Benjamin Hough, "The New York civil list," Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 72, 187, 255 and 414.

Web links

• John Adams in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• John Adams in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• John Adams at The Political Graveyard