Samuel Swan

Samuel Swan (born 1771 in Scotch Plains , Province of New Jersey , †  August 24, 1844 in Bound Brook , New Jersey ) was an American politician . Between 1821 and 1831 he represented the state of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives .

Career

After studying medicine and becoming a doctor, Samuel Swan practiced at Bound Brook between 1800 and 1806. Then he practiced his profession until 1809 in Somerville . Between 1804 and 1806 he was also sheriff chief of police in Somerset County . From 1809 to 1820 Swan served as a county clerk for the county government. Politically, he was originally a member of the Democratic Republican Party . In the 1820s this party split into different wings. Swan initially joined the movement around the future President Andrew Jackson .

In the congressional elections of 1820 he was elected as the Democratic Republican for the fifth seat of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Joseph Bloomfield on March 4, 1821 . After four re-elections, he was able to complete five legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1831 . He ran as a supporter of Jackson in 1822. In the following years he joined the opposition and became a supporter of President John Quincy Adams . Since 1825 he represented the National Republican Party in Congress . After Andrew Jackson took office as President on March 4, 1829, his policies were debated both inside and outside of Congress. It was about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act , the conflict with the state of South Carolina , which culminated in the nullification crisis , and the banking policy of the president.

In 1830, Samuel Swan declined to run again for Congress. He later became a member of the Whig Party , founded in 1835 , which was also in opposition to Jackson and his Democratic Party . Otherwise he practiced as a doctor again after his time in the US House of Representatives. He died in Bound Brook on August 24, 1844.

Web links

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

• Samuel Swan in the database of Find a Grave (English)