George Grennell, Jr.

George Grennell Jr. ( born December 25, 1786 in Greenfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, † November 19, 1877 ) was an American politician. Between 1829 and 1839 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Grennell attended Deerfield Academy and then to 1808 Dartmouth College in Hanover (New Hampshire). After a subsequent law degree in 1811 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started working as a lawyer. Between 1820 and 1828 he was district attorney in Franklin County. In the 1820s he joined the movement against the future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the short-lived National Republican Party and later the Whig Party. In the years 1825-1827 he was a member of the Massachusetts Senate.

In the congressional elections of 1828 was Grennell as Nationalrepublikaner in the seventh election district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Samuel Clesson Allen on March 4, 1829. After four elections he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1839 five legislative sessions. Since 1833 he represented there as a successor of Joseph G. Kendall the sixth district of his state. 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. In 1838 Grennell opted not to run again.

Between 1838 and 1859 George Grennell was curator of Amherst College. From 1849 to 1853 he served as restructuring judge and 1853-1865, he served as Clerk File Clerk at the District Court in Franklin County. he went into the railroad business and became the first president of the railway company Troy and Greenfield Railroad. He died on November 19, 1877 in his hometown of Greenfield.