Timothy Pilsbury

Timothy Pilsbury (born April 12, 1789 in Newburyport , Massachusetts , †  November 23, 1858 in Henderson , Texas ) was an American politician . Between 1845 and 1849 he represented the state of Texas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Timothy Pilsbury attended the public schools in his home country and then worked as a shop clerk for about two years. Then he became a seaman. During the British-American War of 1812 he commanded a privateer. He later settled in Eastport in the newly formed state of Maine . He was a member of the House of Representatives from Maine in 1825 and 1826 ; between 1827 and 1836 he was a member of the government council there. In 1836 he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in Congress .

After that, Pilsbury left the state of Maine. Via Ohio and New Orleans he came to Brazoria in the then independent Republic of Texas . In the years 1840 and 1841 he was a member of the House of Representatives of this republic, before joining the Senate there in 1842 . Eventually he became a judge at the district court in his new hometown, which suggests that he had previously studied law. In Brazoria County , he also served as restructuring judge. In 1845 he was once again a member of the Senate of the Republic of Texas.

After the Republic of Texas joined the Union as a state, Pilsbury was elected as a Democratic Party candidate in the second constituency of the new state in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he took up his new mandate on March 30, 1846. After being re-elected, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1849. This time was marked by the events of the Mexican-American War . In 1848 he was not re-elected. After his tenure in the US House of Representatives, Timothy Pilsbury withdrew from politics. He died on November 23, 1858 in Henderson, where he was buried.

Web links

• Timothy Pilsbury in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Timothy Pilsbury in the database of Find a Grave (English)