John Broome (politician)

John Broome

John Broome (born 1738 on Staten Island , † August 8, 1810 in New York City ) was an American trader and politician who was the lieutenant governor of the state of New York from 1804 to 1810 .

Career

Broome studied with William Livingston Jura , but he gave to his legal career in 1762 and went with his brother Samuel a partnership where it comes to the import went from British goods. In 1769 he married Rebecca Lloyd (1747-1803). The couple had seven children together, including John Bloyd Broome († 1836), who was the father of John L. Broome , an officer in the Mexican-American War .

He also chose a political career when he served in the New York Provincial Congress from 1775 to 1777 . He was also a delegate to the New York Constituent Assembly in 1777 . He was a New York City councilor from 1783 to 1784, and again from 1785 to 1786 . During this time he was Treasurer of New York City in 1784.

Broome was President of the New York City Chamber of Commerce from 1785 to 1794, doing business with India and China at the time . He is said to have initiated the direct import of tea from China, with an initial ship delivery of 2 million pounds.

In August 1795, during the yellow fever outbreak , he was the chairman of the city's Health Committee , appointed the previous year by Governor George Clinton , and retained by his successor, John Jay , despite Broom's appearance at a mass anti-party rally Treaty Jay was negotiating with the British as health was not viewed as a partisan issue. The health committee denied the existence of an epidemic and downplayed the number of deaths by attributing them to other causes.

Broome ran twice for the US Congress without success , the first time in 1789 against John Laurance and the second time in 1802 against Joshua Sands , both federalist candidates. Broome was from 1800 to 1801 and 1802 a member of the New York State Assembly and 1804 in the New York Senate , where he represented New York County all times .

Broome was elected lieutenant governor of New York three times and held this post from July 1804 until his death in August 1810. He first defeated Oliver Phelps in 1804 and won re-election over Thomas Storm in 1807 and Nicholas Fish in 1810. During this time he served under two governors of New York, the first was Morgan Lewis (1804-1807) and the second was Daniel D. Tompkins (1807-1810). Broome's death occurred a month after the beginning of his third term, so that at the beginning of the President pro tempore John Tayler was acting lieutenant governor and from April 1811 DeWitt Clinton , who had won the by-election, defeating Nicholas Fish and Marinus Willett , who the rest of the term served.

On July 8, 1806 Broome married Ruth Hunter († approx. 1840, widow of auctioneer George Hunter).

Broom's remains were immediately interred in New York's First Presbyterian Church cemetery on Wall Street , New York City. However, they were reburied in the 1840s when the church moved to Fifth Avenue between 11th and 12th Streets in Greenwich Village , Manhattan.

Honors

The Broome County (New York) and the town of Broome in Schoharie County (New York) have been named after him, as well as a street in Manhattan .

Web links

• New York yellow fever epidemic of 1795 ( December 15, 2004 memento on the Internet Archive )
• The Political Graveyard
• The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections, 1788-1790 by Merrill Jensen, Robert A. Becker & Gordon DenBoer (University of Wisconsin Press, 1976, ISBN 0299106500 , ISBN 9780299106508 ; page 558)
• The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 32, 139 and 261; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
• The Old Merchants of New York City by Joseph Alfred Scoville (Carleton, 1865; pp. 208ff.)

Individual notes

1. ^ New York: A Guide to the Metropolis , by Gerard R. Wolfe, p. 185