Lewis Condict

Lewis Condict (born March 3, 1772 in Morristown , Province of New Jersey , † May 26, 1862 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1811 and 1817 and again between 1821 and 1833 he represented the state of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Lewis Condict was a nephew of Silas Condict (1738-1801), who took part as a delegate at the Continental Congress between 1781 and 1783 . He attended the public schools in his home country. After a subsequent medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and his approval as a doctor, he began to work in Morristown in this profession. From 1801 to 1803 he was Sheriff Chief of Police in Morris County . In 1804, Condict was a member of a commission that redefined New Jersey's New York state border . Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson . From 1805 to 1809 he sat as a member of the New Jersey General Assembly , whose speaker he was from 1807 as the successor to James Cox . In the congressional election of 1810 Condict was elected for the third seat of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded William Helms on March 4, 1811 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1817 . During this time the British-American War of 1812 fell .

In 1816 and 1819, Condict was President of the New Jersey Medical Society. In the elections of 1820 he was re-elected as the successor to John Linn for the second seat of his state in Congress, where he could spend six more terms after five re-elections until March 3, 1833. He was initially a supporter of the future President Andrew Jackson . In 1824 he joined the opposition to Jackson and became a supporter of President John Quincy Adams . From 1825 to 1827, Condict chaired the Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business and the Committee on Controlling Public Property Spending. After President Jackson took office on March 4, 1829, there was heated debate inside and outside of Congress about its policies. 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 1832, Lewis Condict renounced another congressional candidacy. Between 1827 and 1861 he was a curator at Princeton College . Since the 1830s he was also active in the railroad business. He was a co-founder and President of the Morris and Essex Railroad since 1835 . Politically, he became a member of the Whig Party, founded in 1835 . In 1837 and 1838 he was again a member of the New Jersey State Parliament and President. In the presidential election of 1840 he was elector of his party, voting for the then elected William Henry Harrison . Lewis Condict died on May 26, 1862 in his native Morristown.

Web links

• Lewis Condict in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Lewis Condict in the database of Find a Grave (English)