John Ely (representative)

John Ely ( born October 8, 1774 Saybrook, Connecticut; † August 20, 1849 in Coxsackie, New York) was an American physician and politician. Between 1839 and 1841 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Ely, son of Sarah Worthington and Colonel John Ely, was born about seven months before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War in Saybrook. He studied medicine and began practicing in Coxsackie. Ely was in the years 1806 and 1812 in the New York State Assembly. In 1807 he was one of the founders of the New York State and Greene County Medical Societies and the Albany Female Academy. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1838, for the 26th Congress Ely was in the eighth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeds Zadock Pratt and Robert McClellan took on March 4, 1839 which had previously represented the eighth district together from New York in the U.S. House of Representatives. He retired after the March 3, 1841 out of the Congress.

After his conference time he worked as a doctor again. He died on August 20, 1849 in Coxsackie, and was then buried in the same cemetery.