Timothy H. Porter

Timothy H. Porter (born November 28, 1785 in New Haven , Connecticut , † December 16, 1845 in Olean Township , New York ) was an American politician . Between 1825 and 1827 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Timothy H. Porter was born in New Haven County about two years after the Revolutionary War ended . He completed his preliminary studies. Then he moved to New York and settled in Cattaraugus County . He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1816 and 1817 . Between 1817 and 1820 he was a county judge in Cattaraugus County. He studied law . After receiving his license to practice bar in Tioga County and Cattaraugus Counties in 1819 , he began practicing in Olean . He was First Judge on the Court of Common Pleas in 1819 and District Attorney in Cattaraugus County in 1819, 1820 and 1824. In 1823 he was a member of the New York Senate .

As a result of a fragmentation of the Democratic Republican Party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), he joined the Adams faction . In the 1824 congressional elections for the 19th Congress Porter was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 28th  constituency of New York , where he succeeded William Woods on March 4, 1825 . He then resigned from Congress on March 3, 1827 .

After his time in Congress, he went to Olean as a lawyer. He sat again in the New York Senate between 1828 and 1831, and in the New York State Assembly in 1838 and 1840. He died on December 16, 1845 in Olean Township near the City of Olean. His body was then interred in Mount View Cemetery in Olean.

literature

• Original Portraits and Biographies of the Old Pioneers and Congressmen of Cattaraugus County , John Manley, 1857, pp. 102f.
• The History of Waterbury, Connecticut , Henry Bronson, pp. 520ff.
• The New York Civil List , Franklin Benjamin Hough, Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 71, 125, 127ff, 144, 190f, 220, 223, 298, 326 and 358.

Web links

• Timothy H. Porter in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Timothy H. Porter in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Timothy H. Porter on the warrencarmack.com website