Nathaniel Terry

Nathaniel Terry ( born January 30, 1768 in Enfield, Hartford County, Connecticut, † June 14 1844 in New Haven, Connecticut ) was an American politician. Between 1817 and 1819 he represented the state of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Nathaniel Terry attended the common schools and then Dartmouth College and the Yale College until 1786. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1790 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Enfield. In 1796 he moved to Hartford. Between 1802 and 1813, he was commander of the Foot Guards of the governor of Connecticut in Hartford. From 1807 and 1809 Terry also served as a district judge in Hartford County.

Politically, Terry was a member of the Federalist Party. Between 1804 and 1815 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Connecticut. In the state- wide held congressional elections of 1816, he became the sixth parliamentary seat of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1817, the successor of John Davenport. But until March 3, 1819, he was able to complete only one term in Congress.

In 1818 Terry was a member of a commission to revise the constitution of Connecticut. Since 1810 to 1835 he served as president of the Hartford Fire Insurance Co.; 1819 to 1828 he served as President, the Hartford Bank. Between 1824 and 1831 Terry was mayor of Hartford. He was also a general of the militia. He died on 14 June 1844 in New Haven.