John Carr (politician)

John Carr (born April 9, 1793 in Uniontown , Perry County , Northwest Territory , †  January 20, 1845 in Charlestown , Indiana ) was an American politician . Between 1831 and 1841 he represented the state of Indiana in the US House of Representatives twice .

Career

In 1806, John Carr and his parents came to Clark County in what was then the Indiana Territory , where he attended public schools. He then completed a military career: first with a unit of the United States Rangers , then in the Indiana State Militia. In this troop he later rose to major general. In 1811 he took part in the Battle of Tippecanoe under the command of William Henry Harrison . After that he was used for several years to defend what was then the western border of the United States.

Between 1824 and 1830 he served as a county clerk in the administration of Clark County. Politically, Carr joined the movement around the future President Andrew Jackson in the 1820s and became a member of the Democratic Party founded by this in 1828 . In 1824 he was one of Jackson's electors in the presidential election . In the congressional election of 1830 Carr was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of Indiana , where he succeeded Jonathan Jennings on March 4, 1831 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1837 . These were shaped by the discussions about the policies of President Jackson, who had been in office since 1829. From 1833, Carr represented the third district of his state as the successor to Johnathan McCarty . From 1835 to 1837 he was chairman of the committee on private land claims.

In 1836 John Carr lost to William Graham of the Whig Party , who succeeded him in Congress on March 4, 1837. In the elections of 1838 he was able to win back his old mandate in the third district of Indiana and replace Graham in the US House of Representatives on March 4, 1839. Until March 3, 1841, he spent another legislative period in Congress. In 1840 he renounced another candidacy. After leaving the US House of Representatives, Carr withdrew from politics. He died in Charlestown on January 20, 1845.

Web links

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

• [1] in the database from Find a Grave (English)