John Baldwin (congressman)

John Baldwin ( born April 5, 1772 in Mansfield, Connecticut, † March 27, 1850 in Windham, Connecticut ) was an American politician. Between 1825 and 1829 he represented the state of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Baldwin attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1797, the Brown University in Providence (Rhode Iceland ). After studying law and its made ​​in 1800 admitted to the bar he began in Windham to work in his new profession. Between 1818 and 1824 he was also restructuring judge in Windham County.

Baldwin was a supporter of John Quincy Adams and was named after the dissolution of the Democratic-Republican Party mid- 1820s, a member of the short-lived National Republican Party, and then in the 1830s the Whig party. In the congressional elections of 1824, which were held all across the state of Connecticut, he was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he took over on March 4, 1825 until then by Lemuel Whitman brief given. After a re-election in 1826, Baldwin was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1829 two legislative sessions. These years were overshadowed as a result of the disputed presidential election of 1824 of fierce debate between supporters and opponents of Andrew Jackson and his newly established Democratic Party. Baldwin was one of Jackson's opponents.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives John Baldwin again worked as a lawyer. He has had no further major political office, and died on March 27, 1850 in Windham, where he was also buried.