Nathaniel Jones (politician)

Nathaniel Jones (born February 17, 1788 in Tyringham , Massachusetts , † July 20, 1866 in Newburgh , New York ) was an American politician . Between 1837 and 1841 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Nathaniel Jones was born in Tyringham about four and a half years after the end of the Revolutionary War . His family moved to Warwick, New York , around 1807 . He completed his preparatory studies there and later taught in schools. Jones served in the New York State Assembly in 1827 and 1828 . In 1834 he went to banking. After founding the Democratic Party , he joined it. In the congressional elections of 1836 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth electoral district of New York , where he succeeded John W. Brown on March 4, 1837 . After a successful re-election, he left the Congress on March 4, 1841 . In the same year he moved to Newburgh. He then worked as Surveyor General in New York from February 1842 to November 1844 . Between 1844 and 1847 he was a member of the Eriekanal Commission . He then worked as a school inspector ( superintendent of schools ) and in 1851 as a clerk in the education committee in Newburgh. Jones served in the New York Senate in 1852 and 1853 . He died on July 20, 1866 in Newburgh.

literature

• Franklin Benjamin Hough: The New York civil list , Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 37f, 42, 137, 142 and 284.
• Obituary , The New York Times, July 31, 1866

Web links

• Nathaniel Jones in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)