Micah Sterling

Micah Sterling ( born November 5, 1784 in Lyme, Connecticut, † April 11, 1844 in Watertown, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1821 and 1823 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives. Congressman Ansel Sterling was his brother.

Career

Micah Sterling was born about a year after the end of the Revolutionary War in Lyme. In 1804 he graduated from Yale College. He studied law at the Litchfield Law School. His admission to the bar he received in 1809 and then began to Adams in Jefferson County to practice. In the same year he moved to Watertown, where he pursued his activities as a lawyer on. He held several local offices. In 1816 he was treasurer in the Village of Watertown. He has held the post of director at the Jefferson County Bank. Politically, he was a member of the Federalist Party.

In the congressional elections of 1820 for the 17th Congress Sterling was in the 18th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Donnison Ford on March 4, 1821. He retired after the March 3, 1823 out of the Congress.

After his conference time he went back to his work as a lawyer after. Between 1836 and 1839 he sat in the Senate from New York. He died on 11 April 1844 in Watertown, and was then buried in the Brookside Cemetery.