John J. Morgan

John Jordan Morgan (born 1770 in Queens , New York Province, † July 29, 1849 in Port Chester , New York ) was an American politician . Between 1821 and 1825 and in 1834 and 1835 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Jordan Morgan was born and raised in Queens about five years before the outbreak of the War of Independence . He attended public schools. About this nothing is known about his private life. He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1819 . Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson . In the congressional elections of 1820 , Jordan was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the second constituency of New York , where he succeeded Peter H. Wendover and Henry Meigs , who previously jointly made the second district, on March 4, 1821 represented in the US House of Representatives. 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 Jacksonian faction. In the congressional elections of 1822 Jordan was elected to the US House of Representatives in the third constituency of New York, where he succeeded Jeremiah H. Pierson on March 4, 1823 . Since it to a re-election in 1824 renounced, he left the after March 3, 1825 Congress of. However, he was re-elected to the US House of Representatives on December 1, 1834, to fill the vacancy created by the death of Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence . His term ended on March 3, 1835. He then sat again in the New York State Assembly in 1836 and 1840. He died on July 29, 1849 in Port Chester and was then buried in Trinity Church Cemetery in New York City . His son-in-law was the US Senator John Adams Dix .

literature

• Weed, Parsons & Co .: The New York Civil List , 1858, pp. 71f., 218, and 223.

Web links

• John J. Morgan in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)