Nathan Belcher

Nathan Belcher ( born June 23, 1813 in Preston, New London County, Connecticut, † June 2, 1891 in New London, Connecticut ) was an American politician. From 1853 to 1855 he represented the third electoral district of the state of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After a good primary education Nathan Belcher attended to 1822 Amherst College in Massachusetts. This was followed by a law degree at Cambridge Law School. After qualifying as a lawyer, he began in Clinton to work in his new profession. In 1841 Belcher moved to New London, where he established hardware, tools and kitchen appliances.

Belcher was a member of the Democratic Party. In the years 1846 and 1847 he was a member of the House of Representatives of Connecticut; In 1850 he was a member of the State Senate. In the congressional elections of 1852 he was in the third district of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1853, the successor of Chauncey F. Cleveland. Since he resigned in 1854 to further candidacy, he was able to spend only one term in Congress until March 3, 1855.

After the end of his time in the House of Representatives Nathan Belcher took his previous jobs in New London again. He also went into the banking industry. Politically, he is no longer have appeared until his death on June 2, 1891.

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