Cyrus Beers

Cyrus Beers ( born June 21, 1786 in Newtown, Connecticut, † June 5, 1850 in Ithaca, New York ) was an American politician. In 1838 and 1839 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Cyrus Beers was born about three years after the end of the Revolutionary War in Fairfield County. The family moved to New York City. He received a limited education in the public schools. After that he went commercial transactions after and was in the timber trading. In 1821 he moved to Ithaca. There he continued went to commercial transactions. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. He took 1830 as a delegate to the Democratic State Convention in Herkimer part. 1837 he was appointed Commissioner of Deeds in Ithaca.

In a by-election in the 22nd electoral district of New York, he was elected to the 25th Congress, there to fill the vacancy, created by the death of Andrew DeWitt Bruyn. He took on 3 December 1838 his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Since he gave up for reelection in 1838, he retired after March 3, 1839, from from the Congress. As a delegate, he took in 1839 at the New York and Erie Railroad Convention in part.

After his conference time he went to Ithaca after his previous transactions. He died there on June 5, 1850 and was buried in the city cemetery.