John Crompton Weems

John Crompton Weems (* 1778 in Waterloo , Calvert County , Maryland , †  January 20, 1862 in Anne Arundel County , Maryland) was an American politician . Between 1826 and 1829 he represented the state of Maryland in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Weems attended St. John's College in Annapolis and then worked, among other things, as a planter. In the 1820s he joined the short-lived National Republican Party . After the resignation of MP Joseph Kent , Weems was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC at the due by-election for the second seat of Maryland , where he took up his new mandate on February 1, 1826. After re-election, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1829 . This time was overshadowed by the quarrels between the supporters and opponents of the future President Andrew Jackson . Weems was one of Jackson's opponents.

After his time in the US House of Representatives, John Weems returned to work on his plantation. Politically, he no longer appeared. He died on January 20, 1862 on his Loch Eden plantation in Arundel County.

Web links

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

• John Crompton Weems in the database of Find a Grave (English)