John Stewart (politician, 1795)

John Stewart (born February 10, 1795 in Chatham , Connecticut , † September 16, 1860 there ) was an American politician . Between 1843 and 1845 he represented the second constituency of the state of Connecticut in the US House of Representatives .

Career

After elementary school, John Stewart worked in shipbuilding and trading in Middle Haddam . Politically, he became a member of the Democratic Party founded by President Andrew Jackson . In 1830 he was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives ; between 1832 and 1837 he was a member of the State Senate . He also became a judge at the Middletown District Court .

In the 1842 congressional election, Stewart was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the second district of Connecticut . There he took over from William Whiting Boardman of the Whig Party on March 4, 1843 . But since he lost to Samuel D. Hubbard in the elections of 1844 , he was only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1845 , which, among other things, was dominated by heated discussions about the annexation of the Republic of Texas , which was now independent of Mexico, to the United States was coined.

After his time in the US House of Representatives, Stewart resumed his old job in shipbuilding. In 1846 he was once again in the Connecticut Senate, and in 1854 he was re-elected to the State House of Representatives. John Stewart died on September 16, 1860 in his native Chatham.

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SURNAME	Stewart, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician
DATE OF BIRTH	February 10, 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chatham , Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH	September 16, 1860
Place of death	Chatham , Connecticut