John Herkimer

John Herkimer (* 1773 in Tryon County , Province of New York , † June 8, 1848 in Danube , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician . He represented New York State in the US House of Representatives between 1817 and 1819 and between 1823 and 1825 .

Career

John Herkimer was born and raised in what was then Tryon County about two years before the outbreak of the War of Independence . During this time he attended public schools. He served in the New York State Assembly in 1800, 1804, and 1806 . In 1801 he took part in the New York Constituent Assembly . He later moved to Danube in Herkimer County . He fought during the British-American War . At that time he held the rank of major and on May 29, 1813 commanded a battalion of the New York Volunteers in the defense of Sackets Harbor . After the war, he worked as a judge at the district court for several years.

As an opponent of an overly strong central government, he joined the Democratic-Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson at that time . In the congressional elections of 1816 for the 15th Congress he was elected in the 14th constituency of New York to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Daniel Cady on March 4, 1817 . He retired from the after March 3, 1819 Congress of.

Then he moved to Meriden.

As a result of a fragmentation of his party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), his political affiliation changed to the Adams-Clay faction. In the congressional elections of 1822 for the 18th Congress he was elected to the US House of Representatives in the 15th constituency of New York, where he succeeded Samuel Campbell and James Hawkes , who previously together the district in the March 4, 1823 US House of Representatives. He left the Congress after March 3, 1825.

After his time at the Congress he returned to Danube, where he died on June 8, 1848. His body was then buried there in General Herkimer Cemetery .

literature

• Franklin Benjamin Hough, "The New York civil list," Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 71, 173, 177, 179 and 280.
• Nathaniel Soley Benton, "A history of Herkimer County," J. Munsell, 1856, p. 170.

Web links

• John Herkimer in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• John Herkimer in the database of Find a Grave (English)