John Augustus Griswold

John Augustus Griswold ( born November 11, 1822 in Nassau, New York, † October 31, 1872 in Troy, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1863 and 1869 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Augustus Griswold was born about seven and a half years after the end of the British - American War in Nassau in Rensselaer County. He received an academic education. Then he pursued commercial shops and worked in the steel production. In 1855 he held the post of mayor of Troy. He pursued banking, but was also the president of the Troy & Lansingburgh Railroad Co., of Troy & Cohoes Railroad Co. and the New Orleans, Mobile & Texas Railroad Co.

In 1860 he ran unsuccessfully for the 37th Congress. Politically he belonged at that time to the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1862 for the 38th Congress Griswold was in the 15th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of James B. McKean on 4 March 1863. We then chose him in 1864 as a Republican in the 39th Congress. He was re-elected once. Since he gave up for reelection in 1868, he retired after the March 3, 1869 out of the Congress.

Griswold instead ran unsuccessfully as a Republican in 1868 for the governorship of New York. On April 29, 1869 he was elected Regent of the University of the State of New York. He died on October 31, 1872 in Troy and was then buried in the Oakwood Cemetery. At the time of the Civil War was about seven years too late.