John D. Dickinson
John Dean Dickinson (born June 28, 1767 in Middletown , Colony of Connecticut , † January 28, 1841 in Troy , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician . He represented New York State in the US House of Representatives between 1819 and 1823 and between 1827 and 1831 .
Career
John Dean Dickinson was born in Middletown and grew up during the British colonial era. He completed his undergraduate studies and then graduated from Yale College in 1785 . In 1790 he moved to Lansingburgh in Rensselaer County . He was admitted to the bar in April 1791 and then began practicing in Lansingburgh. He moved to Troy, where he founded the Farmers' Bank in 1801 and became its president - a position he held until his death. In 1814 he founded the Rensselaer & Saratoga Insurance Co. and was its director. Dickinson served in the New York State Assembly from November 1816 to April 1817 . In 1818 he was the first president of the Troy Lyceum of Natural History .
Politically, he belonged to the Federalist Party at that time . In the 1818 congressional election for the 16th Congress , Dickinson was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the tenth constituency of New York , where he succeeded John P. Cushman on March 4, 1819 . After a successful re-election in 1820 , he retired from after March 3, 1823 Congress of.
In 1824 he was one of the original trustees at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute . He was then appointed to the committee that General Lafayette received when he visited the United States in 1824 and 1825.
As a result of the fragmentation of the Democratic Republican Party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), he joined the Adams faction ( 20th Congress ) and later the anti-Jacksonian faction ( 21st Congress ) . Congress ). He was elected to the US House of Representatives in the ninth constituency of New York, where he succeeded William McManus on March 4, 1827 . After a successful re-election in 1828 , he left Congress on March 3, 1831.
After his time in Congress he resumed his practice as a lawyer in Troy, where he died on January 28, 1841. His body was buried in Oakwood Cemetery . He was married to Anne Eliza Tillman. The couple had only one daughter: Julia Maria Dickinson (1799–1846).
literature
- Franklin Benjamin Hough: "The New York civil list" , Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 70ff, 80 and 192.
Web links
- John D. Dickinson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
- John D. Dickinson in the database of Find a Grave (English)
- John D. Dickinson on the RootsWeb website
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SURNAME | Dickinson, John D. |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dickinson, John Dean |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American lawyer and politician |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 28, 1767 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Middletown , Connecticut |
DATE OF DEATH | January 28, 1841 |
Place of death | Troy , New York |