Charles G. De Witt

Charles Gerrit De Witt ( born November 7, 1789 in Green Hill, New York, † April 12, 1839 in Newburgh, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1829 and 1831 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was the grandson of Charles De Witt.

Career

Charles Gerrit De Witt was born about six years after the end of the War of Independence in Green Hill. He studied law. After receiving his license to practice law, he began to practice. He was clerk in the Navy Department and gave the Ulster Sentinel out. Politically, he was a member of the Jacksonian Group.

In the congressional elections of 1828 for the 21th Congress De Witt was in the seventh election district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of George O. Belden on March 4, 1829. Since he gave up for reelection in 1830, he retired after March 3, 1831 from the Congress.

After his conference time he took his work as a lawyer again. On March 22, 1831, he was named the Secretary of the Treasury Samuel D. Ingham as one of three Commissioners of Insolvency for the Southern District of New York and the January 29, 1833 President Andrew Jackson appointed him to the diplomatic business support ( Chargé d' Affaires ) in Central America. In the last year of his mission, the Central American Confederation began as a result of internal power struggles and civil wars to break apart, which extended to 1841. De Witt was New Year 1839 announced his retirement. He fell ill on the Reversing to Kingston on board a Hudson River steamboat river and died on April 12, 1839 in Newburgh. His body was then buried in the Dutch Reformed Cemetery in Hurley.