Benjamin Gorham

Benjamin Gorham ( born February 13, 1775 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, † September 27, 1855 in Boston, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1820 and 1835 he represented three times the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Benjamin Gorham was the son of Nathaniel Gorham (1738-1796), Member and President of the Continental Congress was. He attended the common schools and then studied until 1795 at Harvard University. After studying law and qualifying as a lawyer, he started working in Boston in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic-Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1814 and 1818, he was a member of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts; 1819 to 1821 he was a member of the State Senate.

Following the resignation of Mr Jonathan Mason Gorham was at the due election for the first seat of Massachusetts as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on November 6, 1820. After a re-election, he could initially remain until March 3, 1823 there. In 1823 he was again elected to the Senate from Massachusetts. In the 1820s he joined the movement against the future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the short-lived National Republican Party.

Following the resignation of Daniel Webster Gorham was re-elected to Congress, where he could remain between the July 23, 1827 and March 3, 1831. In the congressional elections of 1832 Gorham was re-elected in the first election District of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he succeeds Nathan Appleton took on 4 March 1833 who had two years earlier, replaced him. Until March 3, 1835, he was able to complete his last term in Congress. 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.

In 1841, Benjamin Gorham was again a deputy in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. Otherwise, he practiced as a lawyer again. He died on September 27, 1855 in Boston.