John Noyes (politician)

John Noyes

John Noyes (born April 2, 1764 in Atkinson , Rockingham County , New Hampshire Colony , † October 26, 1841 in Putney , Vermont ) was an American politician . Between 1815 and 1817 he represented the state of Vermont in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Noyes attended private schools and then studied at Dartmouth College in Hanover until 1795 . Until 1799 he was active as a teacher at the Chesterfield Academy and at Dartmouth College. One of his students there was Daniel Webster . Noyes then studied theology and in 1800 moved to Brattleboro , Vermont, where he worked in commerce.

Noyes became a member of the Federalist Party . Between 1808 and 1810 and again in 1812 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Vermont . In 1812 he moved to Dummerston , where he was also employed in the trade. In the years that followed, he held several local offices in Vermont. In the 1816 congressional elections, which were held in Vermont state-wide, he was elected for the sixth seat of his state in the US House of Representatives in Washington . There he took over from Ezra Butler on March 4, 1815 . Up until March 3, 1817, however, he only served one term in Congress .

After his time in the House of Representatives was over, Noyes returned to his previous trading activities. In 1819 he retired to a farm near Putney, where he died in October 1841.

Web links

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