John Gallagher Montgomery

John Gallagher Montgomery (* June 27, 1805 in Northumberland, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, † April 24, 1857 in Danville, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. In 1857 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Montgomery enjoyed a private school and then studied until 1824 at Washington College, now Washington & Jefferson College in Washington. After a subsequent law degree in 1827 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in Danville in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In 1855 he became a deputy in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1856, Montgomery was in the twelfth electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Henry Mills Fuller on March 4, 1857. This mandate he could actually exercise until his death on April 24 of that year. However, he is likely to have participated in any session of Congress because of the brevity of his term in office and his illness.

Presumably, Montgomery drew his deadly disease by a food poisoning at the National Hotel in Washington DC about. End of February 1857, he had participated there at a dinner in honor of President-elect James Buchanan. Subsequently, many of the participants affected. Even Buchanan was affected and would thus have almost unable to participate in his inauguration on March 4. James Montgomery and Congressman John A. Quitman of Mississippi recovered no more of the poisoning. Also David Fullerton Robison, a former deputy from Pennsylvania, died from the after-effects of the poisoning.