Jonas Earll, Jr.

Jonas Earll Jr. (* 1786 in New York; † October 28, 1846 in Syracuse, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1827 and 1831 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives. The congressman Nehemiah H. Earll was his cousin.

Career

Jonas Earll Jr. was born about three years after the end of the Revolutionary War. He lived in Onondaga County, where he attended the community schools. Between 1815 and 1819 he was sheriff in Onondaga County. He was 1820 and 1821 in the New York State Assembly and from January 1823 to January 1827 in the Senate from New York. Politically, he was a member of the Jacksonian Group.

In the congressional elections of 1826 for the 20th Congress Earll was the 23rd electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Luther Badger on March 4, 1827. He was re-elected once and then retired after March 3, 1831 the Congress of. During his last term, he presided over the Committee on Expenditures in the U.S. State Department.

Between January 1832 and February 1840, he was Commissioner channel. On 26 June 1840 he was postmaster of Syracuse - a post he held until March 10, 1842. They chose him back to channel Commissioner. He held the post of February 8, 1842 to his death on October 28, 1846 in Syracuse. His body was then buried in the Walnut Grove Cemetery in Onondaga Hill.