John B. Yates

John Barentse Yates (born February 1, 1784 in Schenectady , New York , † July 10, 1836 in Chittenango , New York) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1815 and 1817 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Barentse Yates was born and raised in Schenectady approximately five months after the end of the War of Independence . He completed his undergraduate studies and graduated from Union College in Schenectady in 1802 . Yates was studying law . He was admitted to the bar in 1805 and then began practicing in Schenectady. He served in the British-American War under General Wade Hampton on the northern border and was then appointed aide-de-camp of Governor Daniel D. Tompkins .

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 for the 14th Congress , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the 13th  constituency of New York , where he succeeded Alexander Boyd on March 4, 1815 . Since he on a run again in 1816 renounced, he left the after March 3, 1817 Congress of. As a congressman, he presided over the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State .

After his time at the congress he helped build the Welland Canal . He moved to Chittenango in 1816. In 1825 he founded the Yates Polytechnic Institute . He was a Madison County judge in 1835 and 1836 . In 1836 he was elected to the New York State Assembly and served there until his death on July 10, 1836 in Chittenango. His body was then interred in the Walnut Grove Cemetery near Chittenango.

literature

• Franklin Benjamin Hough, "The New York civil list," Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 70, 94, 218 and 318.

Web links

• John B. Yates in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John B. Yates in the database of Find a Grave (English)