William Burleigh

William Burleigh (born October 24, 1785 in Northwood , Rockingham County , New Hampshire , † July 2, 1827 in South Berwick , Maine ) was an American politician . Between 1823 and 1827 he represented the state of Maine in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1788, William Burleigh moved to Gilmanton with his parents . There he attended public schools. After that he started teaching himself for a few years. After a subsequent law degree and his admission to the bar in 1815, he began in South Berwick, which was then still part of Massachusetts , to practice in his new profession. After Maine was founded in connection with the Missouri Compromise of 1820, Burleigh's home fell to the new state.

Politically, Burleigh was a member of the Democratic Republican Party . In the 1820s he joined the faction around the later President John Quincy Adams . In the 1822 congressional elections, he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of Maine . There he took over from Joseph Dane on March 4, 1823 . After two re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on July 2, 1827 . During this time he experienced the violent political clashes between the supporters of his party and those of Andrew Jackson . A little later, Jackson's partisans became the Democratic Party . Between 1825 and 1827 Burleigh was chairman of the Treasury Department's Expenditure Supervision Committee.

William Burleigh was the father of John H. Burleigh (1822–1877), who should also represent the State of Maine in Congress between 1873 and 1877.

Web links

• William Burleigh in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William Burleigh in the database of Find a Grave (English)