John H. Brockway

John Hall Brockway (born January 31, 1801 in Ellington , Connecticut , †  July 29, 1870 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1839 and 1843 he represented the state of Connecticut in the US House of Representatives .

Career

After elementary school, John Brockway attended Yale College until 1820 , when he became a teacher himself. After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1823, he began to work in Ellington in his new profession. Politically, he was in opposition to President Andrew Jackson and his Democratic Party . Therefore, he became a member of the Whigs in the mid-1830s .

Between 1832 and 1838 Brockway was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives ; in 1834 he was a member of the State Senate . In the congressional election of 1838 he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the sixth constituency of Connecticut , where he succeeded Democrat Orrin Holt on March 4, 1839 . After a re-election in 1840, Brockway was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1843 . These were overshadowed by the clashes between his party and President John Tyler , who moved further and further away from the Whig Party and moved closer to the Democrats. At the end of the legislative period in March 1843, the sixth district was dissolved and only reactivated in 1933.

After his tenure in the US House of Representatives, Brockway served as District Attorney in Tolland County from 1849 to 1867 . After that, he retired. John Brockway died in July 1870 in his hometown of Ellington.

Web links

• John H. Brockway in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John H. Brockway in the database of Find a Grave (English)