Andrew Tracy

Andrew Tracy (* December 15 1797 in Hartford, Windsor County, Vermont, † October 28, 1868 in Woodstock, Vermont ) was an American politician. From 1853 to 1855 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Andrew Tracy attended the Royalton Academy and the Randolph Academy and then studied for two years at Dartmouth College in Hanover (New Hampshire). He then worked as a teacher himself. After studying law and its made ​​in 1826 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Quechee (Vermont ). In 1838 he moved his residence and his law firm to Woodstock.

Tracy was a member of the Whig party. From 1833 to 1837 he was a member of the House of Representatives of Vermont. In 1839 he was elected to the State Senate; In 1840 he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Instead, he was from 1843 to 1845 again and even deputy president of the House of Representatives from Vermont.

1852 Tracy was elected in the second district of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of William Hebard on March 4, 1853. In 1854 he declined to run again. So that he could remain only one term in Congress until March 3, 1855. After the end of his time in the House of Representatives Tracy again worked as a lawyer. He has held no other higher political offices more until his death in 1868.

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