Phineas Miner

Phineas Miner (born November 27, 1777 in Winchester , Connecticut , †  September 15, 1839 in Litchfield , Connecticut) was an American politician . Between 1834 and 1835 he represented the state of Connecticut in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Phineas Miner attended schools in his homeland. After completing a law degree and being admitted to the bar in 1797, he began to work in his new profession in his native Winchester. There he also became a justice of the peace in 1809 . Between 1809 and 1816 he sat several times as a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives . In 1816 he moved to Litchfield. In the years 1823, 1827 and 1829 he was again a member of the state parliament; from 1830 to 1831 he was a member of the Connecticut Senate . Miner was an opponent of Andrew Jackson and his Democratic Party . Hence, he joined the short-lived National Republican Party .

After the resignation of Congressman Jabez W. Huntington , Miner was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the necessary by- election. There he ended between December 1, 1834 and March 3, 1835 the legislative period of the Congress that had started by his predecessor . After his time in the US House of Representatives, Phineas Miner worked as a lawyer again. In 1835 he was re-elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives, and in 1838 he became a judge at the Litchfield Probate Court . He died in this city in September 1839.

Web links

• Phineas Miner in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Phineas Miner in the database of Find a Grave (English)