John Thompson (politician, 1749)

John Thompson (born March 20, 1749 in Litchfield , Colony of Connecticut , † 1823 in Stillwater , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician . He represented New York State in the US House of Representatives between 1799 and 1801 and between 1807 and 1811 .

Career

John Thompson grew up during the British colonial era. He attended community schools. At the age of 14, the Thompson family moved to Stillwater. In 1788 he was appointed a judge in Stillwater Township . He served in the New York State Assembly in 1788 and 1789 . Governor George Clinton appointed him first judge in Saratoga County in 1791 , a position he held until 1809.

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 elections of 1798 Thompson was elected in the seventh constituency of New York to the US House of Representatives, which was still in Philadelphia at the time , where he succeeded John Evert Van Alen on March 4, 1799 . He retired from the after March 3, 1801 Congress of.

In 1801 he took part as a delegate to the Constituent Assembly of New York.

Thompson was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the eleventh constituency of New York in 1806 , where he succeeded Peter Sailly on March 4, 1807 . Two years later he ran for a seat in the eighth constituency of New York. After a successful election, he succeeded James I. Van Alen on March 4, 1809 . He left the Congress after March 3, 1811.

He died in Stillwater in 1823 and was buried in the cemetery there.

Web links

• John Thompson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)