John Lefferts

John Lefferts ( born December 17, 1785 Brooklyn, New York, † September 18, 1829 ) was an American politician. Between 1813 and 1815 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Lefferts was born about two years after the end of the Revolutionary War in Brooklyn and grew up there. He attended public schools. About this is nothing further from his private life is known. Politically, he was a member of the founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1812 Lefferts was the first electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Silas Wood on March 4, 1813. Since he resigned in 1814 to run again, he retired after the March 3, 1815 out of the Congress. Lefferts sat 1820-1825 in the Senate from New York. During this time he took part in 1821 as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of New York. He died on 18 September 1829 in Brooklyn and was then buried in the Greenwood Cemetery.