John Goddard Watmough

John Goddard Watmough ( born December 6, 1793 in Wilmington, Delaware, † November 27, 1861 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1831 and 1835, he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Watmough enjoyed a good basic education and then studied at Princeton College and at the University of Pennsylvania. During the British - American War, he was first corporal of the state militia of Pennsylvania. After that, he became a lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He stayed until October 1, 1816 in the military. In the 1820s he joined the movement against the future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the short-lived National Republican Party. Mid-1830s, he joined the Whig party at.

In the congressional elections of 1830 Watmough was in the third electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1831. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1835 two legislative sessions. Since the inauguration of President Jackson in 1829, was discussed inside and outside of Congress vehemently about its policy. It was about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act, the conflict with the State of South Carolina, which culminated in the Nullifikationskrise, and banking policy of the President. 1834 Watmough was not re-elected.

In the years 1835 and 1836 Watmough was as High Sheriff Sheriff in Philadelphia. Between 1841 and 1845 he headed the local port authority. Since 1854 he lived in retirement. John Watmough died on November 27, 1861 in Philadelphia, where he was also buried.