John Benton Sterigere

John Benton Sterigere (born July 31, 1793 in Upper Dublin , Montgomery County , Pennsylvania , †  October 13, 1852 in Norristown , Pennsylvania) was an American politician . Between 1827 and 1831 he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Sterigere attended public schools in his home country while working on a farm. In 1818 he became a justice of the peace in his homeland. Between 1821 and 1824 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1829, he began to work in this profession in Norristown. He performed this activity parallel to his mandate as a congressman. In the 1820s he joined the movement around the future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party founded by this in 1828 .

In the congressional election of 1826 , Sterigere was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of Pennsylvania , where he succeeded Philip Swenk Markley on March 4, 1827 . After re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1831 . From 1829 he was chairman of the Committee on Private Land Claims . Since President Jackson took office in 1829, there has been heated debate inside 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.

In 1838, Sterigere took part in a constitutional convention in his home state as a delegate. In 1839 and again from 1843 to 1846 he was a member of the State Senate ; in June 1852 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore , on which Franklin Pierce was nominated as a presidential candidate. In the meantime, John Sterigere published the Register newspaper in his home country and was a member of a commission to improve the infrastructure of the city of Norristown. He died there on October 13, 1852.

Web links

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

• John Benton Sterigere in the database of Find a Grave (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
Philip Swenk Markley	United States House Representative for Pennsylvania (5th constituency) March 4, 1827 - March 3, 1831	Joel Keith Mann