Alem Marr

Alem Marr ( born June 18, 1787 Upper Mount Bethel, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, † March 29, 1843 in Milton, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1829 and 1831 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1795, Alem Marr moved with his parents in the near Milton in Northumberland County. He attended the public schools of his respective home. In 1807 he graduated from Princeton College. After a subsequent law degree in 1813 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in Danville in this profession. In the 1820s he joined the movement to the later U.S. President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party, founded in 1828 by this.

In the congressional elections of 1828 Marr was in the ninth constituency of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of George Kremer on March 4, 1829. Since he resigned in 1830 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1831. Since the inauguration of President Jackson in 1829, was discussed inside and outside of Congress vehemently about its policy. It was about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act, the conflict with the State of South Carolina, which culminated in the Nullifikationskrise, and banking policy of the President.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives to Alem Marr retired to his farm near Milton, where he died on 29 March 1843.