Rowland Day

Rowland Day (born March 6, 1779 in Chester , Massachusetts , † December 23, 1853 in Moravia , New York ) was an American politician . Between 1823 and 1825 and between 1833 and 1835 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Rowland Day was born in Hampden County during the Revolutionary War . The family moved to Skaneateles in 1805 and he moved from there to Moravia in 1810. Day went about commercial business. He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1816 and 1817 . In 1821 he participated in the Convention for the purpose of revising the Constitution of New York in part. He then moved to Sempronius . There he held several local offices.

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 Crawford faction. In the 1822 congressional elections for the 18th Congress , Day was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 24th  constituency of New York , where he began his service on March 4, 1823 as the first representative of the district in the US House of Representatives . He left the Congress after March 3, 1825. In the following years he joined the Jacksonian faction. In 1834 he ran for the 23rd Congress . After a successful election, he succeeded Ulysses F. Doubleday on March 4, 1832 . He then resigned from Congress on March 3, 1935.

After his time at the congress he went back to commercial business. He died in Moravia about eight years before the outbreak of the Civil War and was then buried in Indian Mound Cemetery .

literature

• The New York Civil List , Franklin Benjamin Hough, Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 57, 71f, 192 and 269.
• Table of the Post Offices in the United States , Duff Green, 1831, p. 46.

Web links

• Rowland Day in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Rowland Day in the database of Find a Grave (English)