John Roane (politician)

John Roane (born February 9, 1766 in King William County , Colony of Virginia , †  November 15, 1838 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1809 and 1837 he represented the state of Virginia in the US House of Representatives several times .

Career

John Roane attended public schools in his home country. In 1788 he was a member of a congregation to revise the Virginia Constitution. From 1788 to 1790 and again in 1790 he sat in the Virginia House of Representatives . Politically, he joined the Democratic Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson in the late 1790s . In the congressional elections of 1808 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the eleventh constituency of his state , where he succeeded James M. Garnett on March 4, 1809 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1815 . Since 1813 he represented the twelfth district of his state as the successor to Burwell Bassett . During this time the British-American War of 1812 fell .

After his time in the US House of Representatives, John Roane worked in agriculture. In the 1820s he joined the movement around Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party founded by this in 1828 . In the elections of 1826 Roane was re-elected to Congress in the twelfth district of Virginia, where he was able to complete two more terms between March 4, 1827 and March 3, 1831. After an interruption of one legislative period, he spent a last term in parliament between March 4, 1835 and March 3, 1837. Since President Jackson took office in 1829, there has been heated debate inside and outside of Congress about its policies. It was about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act , the conflict with the state of South Carolina , which culminated in the nullification crisis , and the banking policy of the president.

John Roane died on November 15, 1838 on his Uppowac estate in King William County. His son John (1794-1869) took over the twelfth electoral district of Virginia from his father in 1831 for one legislative term.

Web links

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