George Loyall

George Loyall (* May 29, 1789 in Norfolk, Virginia; † February 24, 1868 ) was an American politician. Between 1830 and 1837 he represented two times the state of Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Loyall visited in Williamsburg until 1808, the College of William & Mary. He then studied law, but without ever working as a lawyer. In 1815 he visited England. After his return, he embarked on a political career. Between 1818 and 1827 he sat in the House of Representatives from Virginia. End of the 1820s he joined, founded by Andrew Jackson Democratic Party. In 1829 he was a delegate at a meeting on the revision of the Constitution of Virginia.

In the congressional elections of 1828 Loyall succumbed to Thomas Newton. He appealed against the outcome of the election is a contradiction. When this was granted, he was on 9 March 1930, the mandate for the first seat in parliament of his country in Washington DC take over and end the current parliamentary term until March 3, 1831. In the elections of 1830 Newton was able to regain his position and displace Loyall for two years from the Congress. In the elections of 1832 Loyall was re-elected in the first election District of Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he replaced Newton again on March 4, 1833. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1837 two legislative sessions. 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 Loyall worked 1837-1861 with a break of two years as a Navy Agent with the Port Authority of Norfolk. In this city he died on 24 February 1868.