Charles Augustus Barnitz

Charles Augustus Barnitz ( born September 11, 1780 in York, Pennsylvania, † January 8, 1850 ) was an American politician. Between 1833 and 1835, he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Barnitz visited the York County Academy. After a subsequent law degree in 1811 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began in York to work in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career. Between 1815 and 1819 he sat in the Senate of Pennsylvania. Since 1820 until his death he worked for the heirs of William Penn. It was about their interests in the estate Springettsbury Manor in York.

In the congressional elections of 1832 Barnitz as a candidate of the Anti- Masonic Party in the eleventh electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC was chosen, where he became the successor of Robert McCoy on March 4, 1833. Since he resigned in 1834 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1835. Since the inauguration of President Andrew 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 Barnitz again practiced as a lawyer. He also went into the banking industry and was president of the York Bank. Politically, he joined in the 1830s, the Whig party. In 1838 he was a delegate to a constitutional convention of his state; between 1840 and 1844, he participated in the respective national conventions of the Whigs. He died on January 8, 1850 in his home town of York.