John Fairfield Scamman

John Fairfield Scamman ( born October 24, 1786 in Wells, York County, Massachusetts, † May 22, 1858 in Saco, Maine ) was an American politician. From 1845 to 1847 he represented the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Scamman was born in 1786 in Wells, which was still part of Massachusetts at that time and later the 1820 created State of Maine was slammed. Scamman attended the common schools and was engaged in trade. In 1817 he was a deputy in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. After the founding of Maine from 1820 to 1821 he sat in the House of Representatives of that State. From 1829 to 1841 John Scamman worked at the customs office in Saco.

Politically, he joined President Andrew Jackson and his Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1844 he was the first electoral district of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he met on March 4, 1845 the successor of Joshua Herrick. But until March 3, 1847, he graduated only one term in Congress. This was determined by the events of the Mexican- American War, in which it came to the United States, among others, to the connection of the Republic of Texas. During his time in Congress Scamman was chairman of the committee responsible for supervising the expenditure of the Ministry of Finance.

In 1855 Scamman was a member of the Senate of Maine. Otherwise, he has held no other higher political office. He died on 22 May 1858 in Saco.