Samuel Barton (politician)

Samuel Barton (born July 27, 1785 in New Dorp , New York , † January 29, 1858 there ) was an American politician . Between 1835 and 1837 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Samuel Barton was born and raised in New Dorp about two years after the end of the War of Independence . He attended community schools. He then worked as an agent for the Cornelius Vanderbilts steamship lines . He served in the National Guard of New York , where he held the rank of major in 1818 and that of colonel in 1833 . He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1821 and 1822 . Politically, he belonged to the Jacksonian faction. He was on the Andrew Jackson reception committee in 1833. In the congressional elections of 1834 Barton was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of New York , where he succeeded Isaac B. Van Houten on March 4, 1833 . Since he refused to run again in 1836 , he left the Congress after March 3, 1837 . Then he resumed his old job with the steamship lines. In 1842 he was director of the Tompkinsville Lyceum . He died in New Dorp on January 29, 1858 and was then buried in Moravian Cemetery . Civil war broke out about three years later .

literature

• Weed, Parsons & Co .: The New York Civil List , 1858, pp. 73 and 198.

Web links

• Samuel Barton in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)