George Briggs (New York politician)

George Briggs (* May 6, 1805 in Broadalbin, New York, † June 1, 1869 in Saratoga Springs, New York ) was an American politician. He represented 1849-1853 and 1859-1861 the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Briggs was born about seven years before the outbreak of the British - American War in Broadalbin. His family moved to Vermont in 1812 and settled in Bennington. He attended public schools. He then worked as a trader for iron goods (hardware ). In 1837 he sat in the House of Representatives from Vermont. The following year he returned to New York and settled in New York City, where he had continued to work as a dealer.

Politically he belonged at that time to the Whig party. In the congressional elections of 1848 he was in the fifth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Frederick A. Tallmadge on March 4, 1849. He was re-elected once. Since he gave up for reelection in 1852, he retired after the March 3, 1853 out of the Congress. After the founding of the Republican Party, he joined this. He ran in 1858 in the seventh election district of New York again for a congress seat. After a successful election, he entered on March 4, 1859, the successor of Elijah Ward. Since he gave up for reelection in 1860, he retired after March 3, 1861 from the Congress. As a Congressman he had presided over the Committee on Revolutionary Claims (36th Congress ).

After the end of his tenure, he took 1866 as a delegate to the Union National Convention in Philadelphia in part. Briggs died on 1 June 1869 in his summer home " Woodlawn " in Saratoga Springs. His body was interred in Green-Wood Cemetery in the then still independent city of Brooklyn.