Rufus McIntire

Rufus McIntire (born December 19, 1784 in York , York County , Massachusetts , † April 28, 1866 in Parsonsfield , Maine ) was an American politician . Between 1827 and 1835 he represented the state of Maine in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Rufus McIntire attended the public schools of his homeland, which at that time still belonged to Massachusetts, and then until 1809 the Dartmouth College in Hanover ( New Hampshire ). After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1812, he began to practice in Parsonsfield in his new profession. During the British-American War of 1812 , McIntire was captain of an artillery company in the US Army .

After Maine was founded as a result of the Missouri Compromise , Rufus McIntire was elected to the new state's House of Representatives in 1820 . He became a member of a commission to determine the north and northeast borders of Maine. In the 1820s McIntire joined the movement around the future President Andrew Jackson , from which the Democratic Party emerged in 1828 , of which he became a member.

After the death of Congressman William Burleigh in 1827, McIntire was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of Maine . There he took up his new mandate on September 10, 1827. After he was confirmed in the following three regular congressional elections, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1835 . This time was overshadowed by the discussions about the politics of President Jackson, who had been in office since 1829. It was about the dispute over a customs law with the state of South Carolina that led to the nullification crisis , the Indian Removal Act , which the president enforced against the will of the Supreme Court, and Jackson's banking policy.

In 1837 McIntire ran for governor of Maine unsuccessfully . In 1839 and 1840 he was employed by the Maine Land Administration. In 1845 he was named US Marshal for Maine by President James K. Polk . Between 1853 and 1857, McIntire was in charge of customs operations in the Port of Portland . After that, he retired. Rufus McIntire was married twice and had a total of ten children. He died in Parsonsfield in 1866.

Web links

• Rufus McIntire in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Rufus McIntire in the database of Find a Grave (English)