John Condit

John Condit

John Condit (born July 8, 1755 in Orange , Province of New Jersey , † May 4, 1834 ibid) was an American politician who represented the state of New Jersey in both chambers of Congress .

Life

Career

John Condit studied medicine after his compulsory education and then served as a surgeon in the American Revolutionary War . In 1785 he was one of the founding members of the Orange Academy .

Political career

His political career began in 1788 when he was elected to the New Jersey General Assembly , of which he served for one year until 1799. Condit became a member of the Democratic Republican Party . In the spring of 1799, he successfully ran for a seat in the United States House of Representatives , was re-elected once, and served from March 4, 1799 to March 3, 1803.

After Aaron Ogden had submitted his resignation as a US Senator , Condit was elected as his successor in the fall of 1803. Condit, the first Democratic Republican to hold this post in Class 1, took up his new mandate on September 1, 1803. Since a renewed candidacy in the spring of 1809 was unsuccessful, he left the congress on March 3, 1809. But when Senator Aaron Kitchell announced his resignation just nine days later, on March 12, 1809, the responsible authorities fell back on Condit, who, after about three weeks' absence, held a seat in the Senate on March 21, 1809. Condit served for seven years and left on March 3, 1817. In the spring of 1819, Condit announced again his candidacy for a seat in the US House of Representatives and was successfully elected. However, his tenure lasted only eight months from March 4 to November 4, 1819.

Late life

He justified his resignation by saying that he would work as a customs collector in the New York harbor in the future. This last office, which Condit took over, he held from 1819 to 1830. He died four years later, at the age of 78.

Private life

Condit was married twice. Around 1776, at the age of 21, he married 16-year-old Abigail Halsey. The two had four children together, three sons and a daughter. But Abigail Halsey died in October 1784 at the age of only 24.

Only a year later, in 1785, Condit married Rhoda Halsey, 21, the younger sister of his late wife. With her he had three more children, two sons and a daughter, but only two of them reached adulthood. Condit was married to Rhoda Halsey until his death; his wife only survived him by four months.

John Condit's son Silas (1778-1861) sat from 1831 to 1833 also for New Jersey in the US House of Representatives.

Web links

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