Peter Sharpe

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Peter Sharpe (born December 10, 1777 in New York , † August 3, 1842 in Brooklyn , New York) was an American politician . He represented New York State in the US House of Representatives in 1821 and between 1823 and 1825 .

Career

Peter Sharpe was born and raised in New York about a year and a half after the outbreak of the Revolutionary War . He attended the public schools in his home country. In 1807 he was a member of the Columbia County Medical Society . Nothing more is known about this from his private life. He pursued a political career. As Assistant Secretary ( alderman ), he was in New York City operates. He was a member of the New York State Assembly between 1814 and 1821 . Last year he held the office of speaker there and took part in the New York Constituent Assembly . In the congressional elections of 1820 Sharpe was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of New York , where he succeeded James Guyon junior and Silas Wood on March 4, 1821 , who previously together were the first district in the US House of Representatives. However, Cadwallader D. Colden was able to successfully challenge his election on December 12, 1821 on the basis of an incorrect registration. During this time Sharpe belonged to the Democratic Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson . In the congressional election of 1822 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington DC in the third constituency of New York, where he succeeded Jeremiah H. Pierson on March 4, 1823 . As a result of a fragmentation of his party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), his political affiliation changed to the Adams-Clay federalists . Since he suffered a defeat in his third candidacy in 1824 , he left the Congress after March 3, 1825 . He died in Brooklyn on August 3, 1842. His body was first interred in New York Marble Cemetery , but later reburied in Green-Wood Cemetery .

literature

Web links

  • Peter Sharpe in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
  • Peter Sharpe at The Political Graveyard

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The New York Times , May 15, 1866