John J. Morgan

John Jordan Morgan ( * 1770 in Queens, New York, † July 29, 1849 in Port Chester, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1821 and 1825, and in 1834 and 1835, he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Jordan Morgan was born about five years before the outbreak of the War of Independence in Queens and grew up there. He attended public schools. About this is nothing more is known about his private life. He sat in 1819 in the New York State Assembly. Politically, he was a member of the founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1820 Jordan was in the second electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeds Peter H. Wendover and Henry Meigs took on March 4, 1821 which previously together represented the second district in the U.S. House of Representatives. As a result of fragmentation of his party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829) changed his political affiliation to the Jacksonian Group. In the congressional elections of 1822 Jordan was selected in the third electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of Jeremiah H. Pierson on March 4, 1823. Since he gave up for re-election in 1824, he retired after the March 3, 1825 out of the Congress. He, however, was re-elected on 1 December 1834 in the U.S. House of Representatives, there to fill the vacancy that was created by the death of Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence. His term ended on March 3, 1835. Afterwards, he sat in the years 1836 and 1840, again in the New York State Assembly. He died on 29 July 1849 in Port Chester and was then buried in the Trinity Church Cemetery in New York City. His son was the U.S. Senator John Adams Dix.