William Cahoon

William Cahoon (born January 12, 1774 in Providence , Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations , †  May 30, 1833 in Lyndon , Vermont ) was an American politician . Between 1829 and 1833 he represented the fifth constituency of the state of Vermont in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Cahoon attended public schools in his homeland. In 1791 he came to Lyndon, Vermont with his parents, where he worked in the milling business and farming. Politically, he became a member of the Democratic Republican Party . Between 1802 and 1810 he was an MP in the Vermont House of Representatives . In the presidential elections of 1808, he was one of the electoral men in his party who elected James Madison as fourth US president . From 1811 to 1819 Cahoon was a district judge, which suggests an earlier law degree. In both 1814 and 1828 he participated as a delegate in meetings to revise the Vermont Constitution. From 1815 to 1820 Cahoon was a member of the governing council of his home state; between 1820 and 1821 he was its lieutenant governor .

After his party disbanded in the 1820s, Cahoon joined the short-lived Anti-Masonic Party . In the congressional elections of 1828 he was elected as their candidate in the fifth district of Vermont in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Daniel Azro Ashley Buck on March 4, 1829 . After re-election in 1830, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1833 . There he witnessed the discussions about the politics of President Andrew Jackson , the nullification crisis and the dispute over the closure of the Bundesbank. In the elections of 1832 he was defeated by Benjamin F. Deming .

William Cahoon died just a few months after his term ended on May 30, 1833 in Lyndon, where he was also buried.

Web links

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

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