John G. Stower

John G. Stower (* 1791 in Madison , New York , † December 20, 1850 in Sullivan , New York) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1827 and 1829 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John G. Stower was born in Madison County about eight years after the end of the American Revolutionary War . He went to school in Madison. Stower completed his preliminary studies. Then he studied law . He was admitted to the bar in New York. In the following years he was an attorney in Hamilton . He held several local offices, including postmaster . During the British-American War he served as a sergeant in the 129th  Regiment of the Militia of New York. In 1817 he was one of the founders of the Hamilton Recorder - a weekly newspaper that appeared in Madison County. Between 1821 and 1827 he was a judge on the Madison County Surrogate Court . Politically, he belonged to the Jacksonian faction.

In the 1826 congressional elections for the 20th Congress , Stower was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 22nd  constituency of New York , where he succeeded John Miller on March 4, 1827 . He retired from the after March 3, 1829 Congress of.

After his time in Congress, he was appointed federal attorney for the southern Florida Territory , based in Key West - a post he held until 1830. He then returned to Hamilton, where he resumed his practice as a lawyer. He served in the New York Senate in 1833 and 1834 . He later settled in the town of Sullivan. In the following years he founded the Village of Chittenango . He served as president there between 1847 and 1858. He died on December 20, 1850 in Sullivan.

literature

• Gazetteer of the State of New York , JH French, 1860, p. 389.
• Journal of the US Senate , Samuel Bell, 1829, p. 442.
• Register of All Officers and Agents, Civil, Military, and Naval, in the Service of the United States , US Department of State, 1830, p. 223.
• Stowers Families of America , Volume 6, WK Stowers, 2004, pp. 100f.
• The New York Civil List , Franklin Benjamin Hough, Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 129f, 146 and 414.

Web links

• John G. Stower in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John G. Stower in the database of Find a Grave (English)