John D. Dickinson

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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).

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Web links

  • John D. Dickinson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
personal data
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