Nathan Gaither

Nathan Gaither (born September 15, 1788 in Mocksville , Davie County , North Carolina , †  August 12, 1862 in Columbia , Kentucky ) was an American politician . Between 1829 and 1833 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Nathan Gaither attended Bardstown College after preschool . After a subsequent medical degree at Jefferson Medical College and his approval as a doctor, he began to practice in Columbia in his new profession. During the British-American War of 1812 he was an assistant surgeon in the medical service of the armed forces. After the war, Gaither began a political career. Between 1815 and 1818 he was an MP in the Kentucky House of Representatives . In the 1820s he joined the movement around the future US President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party founded by this in 1828 .

In the congressional election of 1828 , Gaither was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the eighth constituency of Kentucky , where he succeeded Richard Aylett Buckner on March 4, 1829 . After re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1833 . Since President Jackson took office in 1829, there has been 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 the elections of 1832 Gaither was defeated by his party colleague Patrick H. Pope . As a result, he largely withdrew from politics. It was not until 1849 that he returned to the political scene as a delegate to a meeting to revise the Kentucky constitution. Between 1855 and 1857 he was again a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives. His main occupation was as a doctor all these years. Nathan Gaither died on August 12, 1862 in Columbia and was buried there.

Web links

• Nathan Gaither in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Nathan Gaither in the database of Find a Grave (English)