John I. Slingerland

John I. Slingerland (* March 1, 1804 in Jerusalem ( Feura Bush today ), New York, † October 26, 1861 in Slingerlands, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1847 and 1849 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John I. Slingerland was born in the beginning of the 19th century in Jerusalem in Albany County, and grew up there. During this time he attended public schools. Slingerland was a large landowner. He pursued agricultural business, but also went other companies in Albany County to - mostly in a small village, which was named after his family, Slingerlands, and was part of Bethlehem. In 1843 and 1844 he sat in the New York State Assembly. Politically he belonged at that time to the Whig party.

In the congressional elections of 1846 for the 30th Congress, he was in the 13th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Bradford R. Wood on March 4, 1847. Since he gave up for reelection in 1848, he retired after March 3, 1849 from the Congress. During this time, he made national headlines in 1848 when he drew attention antislavery activists on the plight of 76 slaves who tried to flee from Washington with a ship, The Pearl. The slaveholders retook the ship and sold many of them to people from the deep south. The level of awareness of Slingerland helped the initiated efforts of abolitionists to increase to end the slave trade.

After his conference time he pursued activities in the railway business. He worked to bring them the Albany & Susquehanna line to Bethlehem. In addition, he was again engaged in farming. Slingerland was an anti -slavery activist. In this context, he joined the Republican Party to, after its foundation in 1856, and enlisted in the same year for John C. Fremont in the presidential election. He sat in the years 1860 and 1861 again in the New York State Assembly. On 26 October 1861 he died in Slingerlands and was then buried there in the family mausoleum.