Jonas P. Phoenix

Jonas Phillips Phoenix (born January 14, 1788 in Morristown , New Jersey , † May 4, 1859 in New York City ) was an American politician . He represented New York State in the US House of Representatives between 1842 and 1845 and between 1849 and 1851 .

Career

Jonas Phillips Phoenix was born in Morristown about five years after the War of Independence ended . He enjoyed a limited education and then worked as a trader in New York City. In 1840, 1842 and 1847 he was Alderman in the First District. In 1842 he was appointed commissioner for the Croton Aqueduct . Politically, Phoenix was a member of the Whig Party . In the congressional elections of 1842 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third electoral district of New York , where on March 4, 1843 he succeeded Charles G. Ferris , Fernando Wood , John McKeon and James I. Roosevelt who previously represented the third district in the US House of Representatives. Since he refused to run again in 1844 , he left the Congress after March 3, 1845 . However, he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in Congress in 1846 . He then chaired the Whig General Committee in 1846 and 1847 . In 1848 he sat in the New York State Assembly and was re-elected to the US House of Representatives, where he succeeded Henry Nicoll on March 4, 1849 . He rejected another candidacy and resigned from Congress after March 3, 1851. He died in New York City about two years before the outbreak of the Civil War on May 4, 1859, and was then buried in the Presbyterian Cemetery in Morristown.

Web links

• Jonas P. Phoenix in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)