Nicoll Fosdick

Nicoll Fosdick (born November 9, 1785 in New London , Connecticut , † May 7, 1868 there ) was an American politician . Between 1825 and 1827 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Nicoll Fosdick was born in New London County about two years after the end of the American Revolutionary War . He completed his preliminary studies. Fosdick moved to Norway (New York). In the presidential election of 1816 he stood as an elector for James Monroe . He served in the New York State Assembly in 1818 and 1819 .

As a result of a fragmentation of the Democratic Republican Party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), he joined the Adams faction . In the 1824 congressional elections for the 19th Congress , Fosdick was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 20th constituency of New York , where he succeeded Ela Collins and Egbert Ten Eyck on March 4, 1825 . He retired from the after March 3, 1827 Congress of.

He returned to New London in 1843. Between 1849 and 1853 he was there as a tax collector ( Collector of Customs operates). He also pursued commercial transactions. He died in New London about three years after the end of the Civil War . His body was buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery .

literature

• The New York Civil List , Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 71, 81, 193f, 274, 321, 325.
• History of New London, Connecticut , Francis Caulkins, Applewood Books, 2010, ISBN 1429022914 , p. 649.

Web links

• Nicoll Fosdick in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Nicoll Fosdick in the database of Find a Grave (English)