Ansel Sterling

Ansel Sterling ( born February 3, 1782 Lyme, Connecticut; † November 6, 1853 in Sharon, Connecticut ) was an American politician. Between 1821 and 1825 he represented the state of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Ansel Sterling was the older brother of Micah Sterling (1784-1844), of the New York State represented in Congress 1821-1823. He attended the common schools. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1805 admitted to the bar he began in Salisbury to work in his new profession. In 1808 he moved his office and his residence to Sharon.

Sterling was a member of the Democratic- Republican Party. Between 1815 and 1837 he was several times as a delegate in the House of Representatives from Connecticut. In the congressional elections of 1820, which were held all across the state, he was for the fifth parliamentary seat of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he met on March 4, 1821 in the footsteps of Elisha Phelps. After a re-election in 1822 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1825 two legislative sessions. After the dissolution of his party in those years he joined the faction of the future President John Quincy Adams, who supported him in his re-election in 1822.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Sterling was until 1837 the temporary representative in the state legislature and practiced as a lawyer again. Between 1838 and 1840 he was Chief Judge of the Court of Appeal in Litchfield County. Ansel Sterling died on November 6, 1853 in Sharon and was also buried there.

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