Jared V. Peck

Jared Valentine Peck ( born September 21, 1816 in Port Chester, New York, † December 25, 1891 in Rye, New York ) was an American politician. From 1853 to 1855 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Jared Valentine Peck was born about one and a half years after the end of the British - American War in Port Chester and grew up there. During this time he attended community schools. Then he went to lumber, bricks, hardware and building materials stores. He was in the years 1844 and 1845 Auditor in the Town of Rye. In 1848 he sat in the New York State Assembly. Policy, he belonged to the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1852 for the 33rd Congress Peck was in the ninth constituency of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Murray on March 4, 1853. Since he gave up for reelection in 1854, he retired after March 3, 1855 from the Congress.

After his time Congress he resumed his former business. Governor Edwin D. Morgan appointed him in 1859 as supervisor ( warden ) in the Port of New York - a position which he held until 1865. During this time he lived in New York City. He was one of the founders of the Union League Club. Peck returned to Westchester County and settled in Rye. In the following years he was a member of the Board of Auditors. He died on December 25, 1891 in Rye, which was then buried at the Greenwood Union Cemetery.