Teunis G. Bergen

Teunis G. Bergen (1806-1881)

Teunis G. Bergen

Teunis Garret Bergen (born October 6, 1806 in Brooklyn , New York , † April 24, 1881 ) was an American politician . Between 1865 and 1867 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Teunis Garret Bergen was born and raised in Brooklyn about six years before the outbreak of the British-American War . He attended community schools and the Erasmus Hall Academy in Flatbush . He then worked in agriculture and worked as a surveyor . Between 1836 and 1859 he was Town Supervisor of New Utrecht in Kings County . He took part in the New York Constituent Assemblies in 1846, 1867, and 1868 , and the Democratic National Conventions in Baltimore and Charleston a year before the outbreak of the Civil War .

Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party . In the congressional elections of 1864 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of New York , where he succeeded Martin Kalbfleisch on March 4, 1865 . Since he on a run again in 1866 renounced, he left the after 3 March 1867 Congress of.

He then returned to agriculture and carried out surveying work at New Utrecht. In addition, he wrote literary and historical works. Bergen joined the 241st Regiment of the New York National Guard , better known as the Kings County Troop , as a lieutenant at sea ( ensign ) and rose to the rank of colonel over time. He died in Brooklyn on April 24, 1881 and was then buried in Green-Wood Cemetery . His great cousin was Congressman John T. Bergen .

Web links

• Teunis G. Bergen in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Teunis G. Bergen in the database of Find a Grave (English)