Johnathan McCarty

Johnathan McCarty (born August 3, 1795 in Culpeper County , Virginia , †  March 30, 1852 in Keokuk , Iowa ) was an American politician . Between 1831 and 1833 he represented the state of Indiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Johnathan McCarty came to Franklin County , Indiana, with his father in 1803 . He attended the public schools in his old and new homeland. Later he worked in the trade. At the same time he began a political career. In 1818 he was elected to the Indiana House of Representatives. Around the same time he moved to Connersville . From 1819 to 1827 McCarty was a bailiff at the local district court.

Politically, McCarty joined the movement around Andrew Jackson in the 1820s and became a member of the Democratic Party founded by this in 1828 . In the congressional election of 1830 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of Indiana , where he succeeded John Test on March 4, 1831 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1837 . These were shaped by the discussions about the policy of Andrew Jackson, who has now been elected President . It was about the controversial implementation of the Indian Removal Act , the nullification crisis with the state of South Carolina and the banking policy of the president. Since 1833 Johnathan McCarty represented the then newly created fifth district of his state. He also left the Democratic Party during his second term in Congress and joined the opposition to President Jackson. He later became a member of the Whig Party, founded in 1835 .

In 1836, McCarty was not reconfirmed. Four years later, he was one of the Whig Party electors in the presidential election to elect William Henry Harrison as president. He later moved to Keokuk, Iowa, where he died on March 30, 1852.

Web links

• Johnathan McCarty in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)