John Tolley Hood Worthington

John Tolley Hood Worthington (born November 1, 1788 in Baltimore , Maryland , †  April 27, 1849 in Baltimore County , Maryland) was an American politician . Between 1831 and 1841 he represented the state of Maryland twice in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Worthington received only a limited education. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party . In the congressional elections of 1830 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of Maryland , where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1831. Since he was not confirmed in 1832, he could initially only complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1833 . Since President Andrew Jackson took office in 1829, the politics of Congress have been heatedly debated inside and outside of Congress. It was about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act , the conflict with the state of South Carolina , which culminated in the nullification crisis , and the banking policy of the president.

In 1836 Worthington was re-elected to Congress in the third district of his state, where he replaced James Turner on March 4, 1837 . After being re-elected, he was able to complete two more terms in Congress until March 3, 1841. He died on April 27, 1849 on his Shewan estate in Baltimore County.

family

He was married to Mary Tolley Worthington (1790-1840). The couple had two sons and two daughters.

James Watkins, a former Maryland slave, tells of two other illegitimate daughters who were themselves enslaved as children of a female slave. One of the two had been sold by her father for 1,800 dollars and was supposed to be used by her buyers to bear slave children. When she refused this type of use on the basis of her Christian beliefs, she was beaten so brutally that she died of the consequences in Watkins' presence.

Web links

• John Tolley Hood Worthington in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John Tolley Hood Worthington in the database of Find a Grave (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ James Watkins: Struggles for Freedom; or The Life of James Watkins, Formerly a Slave in Maryland, US; in Which is Detailed a Graphic Account of His Extraordinary Escape from Slavery, Notices of the Fugitive Slave Law, the Sentiments of American Divines on the Subject of Slavery, etc., etc. 19th edition. Manchester 1860 ( online at docsouth.unc.edu [accessed September 19, 2019]).