John T. Bergen

John Teunis Bergen (* 1786 in Gowanus , New York , † March 9, 1855 in Batavia , New York) was an American politician . Between 1831 and 1833 he represented the state of New York in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Teunis Bergen was born in Gowanus three years after the end of the War of Independence and grew up there. He enjoyed a good education. When the British-American War broke out, he enlisted in the National Guard of New York , where he initially held the rank of lieutenant and at the end of the war that of captain . He served as a sheriff in Kings County between 1821 and 1825 and from 1828 until his resignation in 1831 . During this time he acquired the Long Island Patriot in 1829 . The name was then changed to Brooklyn Advocate and ultimately the Brooklyn Daily Eagle .

Politically, he belonged to the Jacksonian faction. In the congressional election of 1830 , Bergen was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the second constituency of New York , where he succeeded Jacob Crocheron on March 4, 1831 . Since he refused to run again in 1832 , he left the Congress after March 3, 1833 . During his tenure as a congressman, he chaired the Committee on Accounts .

He then worked in agriculture at Bay Ridge . He then moved to Brooklyn where he worked in the grocery store. In 1837 he ran a planing mill in New York City with his sons. He later moved to Genesee County , where he returned to farming. He died on March 9, 1855 in Batavia and was buried there. The civil war broke out six years later. His great cousin was Congressman Teunis G. Bergen .

Web links

• John T. Bergen in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John T. mountains in the database of Find a Grave (English)