Alexander De Witt

Alexander De Witt ( born April 2, 1798 in New Braintree, Worcester County, Massachusetts, † 13 January 1879 in Oxford, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. From 1853 to 1857 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Alexander De Witt received an academic education. Later he worked in the textile industry. At the same time he began a political career. Between 1830 and 1836 he was a member of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts; in the years 1842, 1844, 1850 and 1851 he was a member of the State Senate. In 1853 he was a delegate at a meeting to revise the constitution of Massachusetts. De Witt was initially a member of the Free Soil Party.

In the congressional elections of 1852 he was in the ninth election district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Edward P. Little on March 4, 1853. After a re-election as a candidate of the American Party, which he had fallen in with, he was able to complete two terms in Congress, 1857 to March 3. These were shaped by the events leading up to the Civil War. In 1856 he was not re-elected.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Alexander De Witt worked again in the textile industry. He died on 13 January 1879 in Oxford.