John Baldwin (politician)

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John Baldwin (born April 5, 1772 in Mansfield , Colony of Connecticut , †  March 27, 1850 in Windham , Connecticut ) was an American politician . Between 1825 and 1829 he represented the state of Connecticut in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Baldwin attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1797 Brown University in Providence ( Rhode Island ). After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1800, he began working in his new profession in Windham. He was also a probate judge in Windham County between 1818 and 1824 .

Baldwin was a supporter of John Quincy Adams and joined the short-lived National Republican Party after the Democratic Republican Party dissolved in the mid-1820s, and then the Whig Party in the 1830s . He was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the Congressional elections of 1824, which were held nationwide in Connecticut . There he took over the mandate held by Lemuel Whitman on March 4, 1825 . After a re-election in 1826, Baldwin was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1829 . These years were overshadowed by heated discussions between supporters and opponents of Andrew Jackson and his newly formed Democratic Party as a result of the controversial presidential elections of 1824 . Baldwin was one of Jackson's opponents.

After his time in the US House of Representatives, John Baldwin returned to work as a lawyer. He did not hold any other important political office and died on March 27, 1850 in Windham, where he was also buried.

Web links

  • John Baldwin in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)