John Culpepper

John Culpepper (born April 10, 1765 in Wadesboro , Anson County , Province of North Carolina , † January 1841 in Darlington County , South Carolina ) was an American politician . Between 1807 and 1829 he represented the state of North Carolina several times in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Culpepper attended the public schools in his home country and then became a clergyman in the Baptist Church . Politically, he became a member of the Federalist Party . In the congressional election of 1806 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the seventh constituency of North Carolina , where he succeeded Duncan McFarlan on March 4, 1807 . This election was challenged and a by-election ordered, which Culpepper also won. This allowed him to complete a legislative term in Congress until March 3, 1809, with a brief interruption. In the following years until 1829 he was elected several times in the seventh district of his state in Congress. Between March 4, 1813 and March 3, 1817 he was able to spend two terms in the US House of Representatives, which were initially shaped by the events of the British-American War . In 1816 it was not confirmed.

In the elections of 1818 Culpepper was elected one more time to Congress, where he completed another legislative period between March 4, 1819 and March 3, 1821. In the 1820s he joined the movement around President John Quincy Adams . Between 1823 and 1825 and again from 1827 to 1829 he was again a Congressman, now for the National Republican Party . This time was marked by heated discussions between supporters and opponents of the future President Andrew Jackson . In 1828 John Culpepper renounced another candidacy. After his final resignation from the US House of Representatives, he withdrew from politics. He died in January 1841 on his son's estate in South Carolina.

Web links

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

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