Silas Condict

Silas Condict (born March 7, 1738 in Morristown , Province of New Jersey , † September 6, 1801 ibid) was an American politician who participated as a delegate from New Jersey to the Continental Congress.

Silas Condict graduated from the preparatory school, but then did not continue his education. He owned large estates in his hometown of Morristown and Morris County . After the New Jersey State Council was established as the upper house of the state legislature in 1776 , he moved into this Chamber of Parliament, of which he was a member until 1780. As a supporter of the independence movement , he was also a member of the local Committee of Safety .

From 1781 to 1783 Condict represented the interests of his home state in the Continental Congress that was meeting in Philadelphia at the time . He then became a deputy in the Parliament of New Jersey , the General Assembly , to which he belonged from 1791 to 1794, 1796 to 1798 and again in 1800's. From 1792 to 1794 and in 1797 he was the speaker of this parliamentary chamber.

Condict died in his native Morristown in 1801 and was buried there. His nephew Lewis Condict and his great-grandson Augustus W. Cutler later sat as New Jersey MPs in the United States House of Representatives .

Web links

• Silas Condict in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Silas Condict in the database of Find a Grave (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
Ebenezer Elmer	Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly 1792–1794	Ebenezer Elmer
James Henderson Imlay	Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly 1797	William Coxe Jr.