John McKeon

John McKeon

John McKeon (born March 29, 1808 in Albany , New York , † November 22, 1883 in New York City ) was an American lawyer and politician . He represented New York State in the US House of Representatives between 1835 and 1837 and between 1841 and 1843 .

Career

John McKeon was born in Albany about four years before the outbreak of the British-American War . He attended private schools. He then studied law at Columbia College (now Columbia University ) in New York City, where he graduated in 1828. He was admitted to the bar that same year and then began practicing in New York City. Between 1832 and 1834 he was a member of the New York State Assembly .

Politically, McKeon belonged to the Jacksonian faction. In the congressional election of 1834 he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 3rd Congressional constituency of New York , where he succeeded Churchill C. Cambreleng , Campbell P. White , John J. Morgan and on March 4, 1835 Charles G. Ferris took over, who previously together represented the third district in the US House of Representatives. He suffered in 1836 during his re-election bid a defeat and withdrew from the after March 3, 1837 Congress of. After founding the Democratic Party , he joined it. In the congressional elections of 1840 he was re-elected to the US House of Representatives in the third electoral district of New York, where on March 4, 1841 he succeeded Moses Hicks Grinnell , Edward Curtis , Josiah O. Hoffman and James Monroe , who previously together represented the third district in the US House of Representatives. In 1842 he suffered another defeat and left the Congress on March 3, 1843.

He then served from 1846 to 1850 as a district attorney in Manhattan active. President Franklin Pierce appointed him on July 10, 1854, to succeed Charles O'Conor as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York - a position he held until January 7, 1858. McKeon served again as a district attorney in New York City from November 1881 until his death on November 22, 1883. His body was buried in the family vault in St. Patrick's Cathedral on Mott Street .

literature

• Weed, Parsons & Co .: The New York Civil List , 1858, pp. 211ff and 377.
• Sketch of the candidates , The New York Times, October 19, 1881
• John M'Keon's Work Done , The New York Times, November 23, 1883

Web links

• John McKeon in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John McKeon in database Find a Grave (English)
• John McKeon at The Political Graveyard
• John McKeon in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography