John Palmer (politician, 1785)

John Palmer (born January 29, 1785 in Hoosick , New York , † December 8, 1840 in Saint-Barthélemy , French West Indies ) was an American lawyer and politician . He represented New York State in the US House of Representatives between 1817 and 1819 and between 1837 and 1839 . Congressman George William Palmer was his nephew.

Career

John Palmer was born in Hoosick, Rensselaer County , about a year and a half after the Revolutionary War ended . He completed his studies and then graduated from Williams College in Williamstown ( Massachusetts ). He studied law . After receiving his license to practice law, he began practicing in Plattsburgh in 1810 . In 1812 he served as paymaster in the 8th  Regiment of the New York National Guard .

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 , Palmer was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the twelfth constituency of New York , where he succeeded Asa Adgate and John Savage after March 4, 1817 , who previously together represented the district in the US House of Representatives. He retired from the after March 3, 1819 Congress of.

Between 1818 and 1832 he worked as a district attorney. For part of 1832 he served in the New York State Assembly . He then became a Clinton County judge that same year - a position he held until his resignation in 1837.

He joined the Democratic Party . In the congressional elections of 1836 for the 25th Congress he was elected to the US House of Representatives in the 13th constituency of New York, where he succeeded Dudley Farlin after March 4, 1837 . Since he refused to run again in 1838 , he left the Congress after March 3, 1839.

For health reasons he traveled to Saint-Barthélemy, where he died on December 8, 1840. His body was then interred in St. Bartholomew Cemetery .

literature

• Franklin Benjamin Hough, "The New York civil list," Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 70, 73 and 87.

Web links

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

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