John Nevett Steele

John Nevett Steele (born February 22, 1796 in Weston , Dorchester County , Maryland , †  August 13, 1853 in Cambridge , Maryland) was an American politician . Between 1834 and 1837 he represented the state of Maryland in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Steele attended public schools in his home country. After a subsequent law degree and his admission to the bar in 1819, he began to work in Dorchester County in this profession. At the same time he managed his Indian Town plantation near Vienna . Between 1822 and 1830 he sat several times in the Maryland House of Representatives . As an opponent of the future President Andrew Jackson , he joined the short-lived National Republican Party . He later became a member of the Whigs .

After the death of MP Littleton Purnell Dennis , Steele was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC at the by-election due for the first seat of Maryland , where he took up his new mandate on May 29, 1834. After being re-elected, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1837 . There was still heated discussion of President Jackson's policies at the time.

In 1838, John Steele was the Whigs' candidate for governor of Maryland; However, he lost just under 300 votes difference to the Democrat William Grason . Otherwise he continued to devote himself to his Indian Town plantation . John Steele died in Cambridge on August 13, 1853.

Web links

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

• John Nevett Steele in the database of Find a Grave (English)