William Dietz (politician)

William Dietz (born June 28, 1778 in Schoharie , New York , † August 24, 1848 there ) was an American politician . Between 1825 and 1827 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Dietz was born in Schoharie during the War of Independence and grew up there. During this time he attended district schools. After that he worked in agriculture. He worked in the years 1804 and 1805 as a town clerk ( town clerk ). In 1812 he was Town Supervisor of Schoharie. He served in the New York State Assembly in 1814, 1815, and 1823 . Politically, he belonged to the Jacksonian faction.

In the 1824 congressional elections for the 19th Congress , Dietz was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the twelfth constituency of New York , where he succeeded Lewis Eaton on March 4, 1825 . He retired from the after March 3, 1827 Congress of.

Between 1830 and 1833 he was a member of the New York Senate . In the presidential election of 1832 , he joined as an elector ( presidential elector ) for the Democratic Party of. Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren went out of the race as winners. After that he worked in agriculture again. Dietz held the post as Superintendent of the Poor in Schoharie County in 1834 and 1835 . He was a colonel in the New York militia . He died on August 24, 1848 in Schoharie and was then buried in St. Paul's Lutheran Cemetery .

literature

• Franklin Benjamin Hough: "The New York civil list," Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 71, 80, 128f, 140, 188, 190, 200, 270, 322 and 327.

Web links

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

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ William E. Roscoe, "History of Schoharie County New York, 1713-1882," Volume 1, Heritage Books, p. 105.