Jonathan Cilley

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Jonathan Cilley

Jonathan Cilley (born July 2, 1802 in Nottingham , Rockingham County , New Hampshire , †  February 24, 1838 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1837 and 1838 he represented the state of Maine in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Jonathan Cilley was a member of a well-known New England political family . His grandfather Joseph Cilley (1734–1799) was a general and senator in the New Hampshire Senate . His uncle Bradbury Cilley (1760-1831) represented the state of New Hampshire in the US House of Representatives between 1813 and 1817; his brother Joseph (1791-1887) was from 1845 to 1847 US Senator for New Hampshire.

Cilley attended the Atkinson Academy in New Hampshire and then the New Hampton Academy until 1825 . He then graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick (Maine). There he was a classmate of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow . During this time he made friends with the later US President Franklin Pierce . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1828, he began to practice his new profession in Thomaston . It was in this town that Cilley published the Thomaston Register newspaper between 1829 and 1831 . Politically, he joined Andrew Jackson and his Democratic Party . Between 1831 and 1836 he was an MP in the Maine House of Representatives . From 1835 he was Thomas Davee's successor as its president .

In the congressional election of 1836, Cilley was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the third constituency of Maine. There he took over from Jeremiah Bailey on March 4, 1837 . He held this mandate until his death on February 24, 1838. Jonathan Cilley died in a duel with Congressman William J. Graves of Kentucky . The cause of the duel was a newspaper article in which another parliamentarian was accused of immoral behavior.

Web links

  • Jonathan Cilley in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
personal data
SURNAME Cilley, Jonathan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Nottingham , New Hampshire
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1838
Place of death near Washington, DC