John T. Nixon

John T. Nixon

John Thompson Nixon (born August 31, 1820 in Fairton , Cumberland County , New Jersey , †  September 28, 1889 in Stockbridge , Massachusetts ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1859 and 1863 he represented the state of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives ; he then became a federal judge in the federal district court for the district of New Jersey.

Career

John Nixon attended private schools and then studied at Princeton College until 1841 . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1845, he began to work in Bridgeton in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career. From 1848 to 1850 he was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly , of which he was president in 1850. He joined the Republican Party founded in 1854 .

In the congressional election of 1858 Nixon was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of New Jersey , where he succeeded Isaiah D. Clawson on March 4, 1859 . After being re-elected, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1863 . These were shaped by the events of the civil war that broke out in 1861 . In 1862, Nixon renounced another candidacy.

After his time in the US House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer in Bridgeton again between 1863 and 1870. From 1870 until his death, he was a judge on the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey , where he succeeded Richard Stockton Field . He died on September 28, 1889 at his summer residence in Massachusetts and was buried in Bridgeton. John Nixon was married to Mary Hurst Elmer (1827-1914), the daughter of Congressman Lucius Elmer (1793-1883), with whom he had four children, three of whom reached adulthood.

Web links

• John T. Nixon in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• John T. Nixon in the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges

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