John Russell (politician, 1772)

John Russell (born September 7, 1772 in Branford , Colony of Connecticut , † August 2, 1842 in Cooperstown , New York ) was an American doctor and politician . Between 1805 and 1809 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Russell was born and raised in Branford approximately three years before the outbreak of the War of Independence . During this time he attended public schools. He moved to New York, where he studied medicine and practiced for a short time in Cooperstown. Between 1801 and 1804 he worked as a town clerk ( county clerk ) in Otsego County .

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 election of 1804 for the 9th Congress he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 14th constituency of New York , where he succeeded Erastus Root on March 4, 1805 . After a successful re-election in 1806 , he left the Congress on March 3, 1809 .

In the presidential election of 1812, he appeared as an elector ( presidential elector ) for DeWitt Clinton and Jared Ingersoll , which both of the Federalist Party belonged. He went about commercial business. He died on August 2, 1842 in Cooperstown and was buried in Christ Churchyard . About four years later the Mexican-American War broke out.

Web links

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