George Gray Leiper

George Gray Leiper ( born February 3, 1786 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † November 18, 1868 in Delaware County, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1829 and 1831 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Leiper attended the common schools and then studied until 1803 at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. In 1810 he moved into his property lapidea in Delaware County. There, he worked in the timber industry and some operational quarries. During the British - American War, he was appointed as a member of the militia of Delaware County in the meantime in the active military service. In the 1820s he joined the movement to the future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party, founded in 1828 by this. Between 1822 and 1823 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1828 Leiper in the fourth electoral district of Pennsylvania was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charles Miner on March 4, 1829. Since he resigned in 1830 to run again, he was able to complete up to March 3, 1831, only one term in Congress, during which he was chairman of the committee responsible for supervising the expenditure of the Ministry of Finance. Since the inauguration of President 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 George Leiper continued to operate its quarries. Between 1843 and 1851 he was associate judge in Delaware County. He died on November 18, 1868 at his estate lapidea.