Garnett Adrain

Garnett Bowditch Adrain (* December 15, 1815 in New York City; † August 17, 1878 in New Brunswick, New Jersey ) was an American politician. Between 1857 and 1861 he represented the State of New Jersey in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Garnett Adrain attended the public schools in New Brunswick, where he was in his childhood moved with his parents. In 1833 he graduated from the local Rutgers College. After a subsequent study law at his brother and in 1836 was admitted to the bar he began in New Brunswick to work in this profession. Politically, Adrain member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1856 he was in the third electoral district of New Jersey in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of James Bishop on March 4, 1857. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1861 two legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events in the immediate run-up to the Civil War. During this time, Adrain acting as Chairman of the Committee on Engraving. He was a staunch opponent of secession of the southern states.

In 1860 Adrain gave up a new Congress candidacy. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. He died on August 17, 1878 in New Brunswick.