Nathaniel Jones (representative)

Nathaniel Jones ( born February 17, 1788 in Tyringham, Massachusetts, † July 20, 1866 in Newburgh, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1837 and 1841 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Nathaniel Jones was born about four and a half years after the end of the Revolutionary War in Tyringham. His family moved around 1807 to Warwick (New York). He graduated from there his preparatory studies and taught at schools later. Jones sat in the years 1827 and 1828 in the New York State Assembly. In 1834 he went to banking transactions. After the founding of the Democratic Party, he joined this. In the congressional elections of 1836 he was in the sixth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John W. Brown on March 4, 1837. After a successful re-election, he retired after March 4, 1841 out of the Congress. In the same year he moved to Newburgh. He then worked as Surveyor General in New York from February 1842 to November 1844. Between 1844 and 1847 he sat in the Erie Canal Commission. He then worked as a school inspector ( superintendent of schools ) and 1851 as Clerk in the Education Committee in Newburgh. Jones sat in the years 1852 and 1853 in the Senate from New York. He died on July 20, 1866 in Newburgh.