John Holmes Prentiss

John Holmes Prentiss ( born April 17, 1784 in Worcester, Massachusetts, † June 26, 1861 in Cooperstown, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1837 and 1841 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives. U.S. Senator Samuel Prentiss was his brother.

Career

John Holmes Prentiss was born about a year after the end of the War of Independence in Worcester. He attended local and private schools. In 1808 he was foreman at the New York Evening Post. He retired in October 1808 to Cooperstown in Otsego County. There he founded the same year the Freeman 's Journal, where he worked as an editor. Governor George Clinton appointed him colonel in the militia and served as Division Inspector on the staff of Heerführersö ( Commander in Chief ). On April 24, 1833, he was postmaster in Cooperstown - a position which he held until February 17, 1837. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. He was Vice President of the Democratic State Convention in Albany.

In the congressional elections of 1836 for the 25th Congress of Prentiss was in the 19th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Sherman Page on March 4, 1837. He was re-elected once. Since he gave up for reelection in 1840, he retired after the March 3, 1841 out of the Congress.

After his conference time he returned to his former newspaper activity. He also held the post of president in the Bank of Cooperstown. On 26 June 1861 he died in Cooperstown and was then buried in the Lakewood Cemetery. At that time, civil war raged for about two and a half months.