Robert Ramsey (congressman)

Robert Ramsey ( * February 15, 1780 in Warminster, Pennsylvania, † December 12, 1849 in Warwick, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1833 and 1835, and again from 1841 to 1843, he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Robert Ramsey attended the public schools of his home. In the 1820s he joined the movement to the future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party, founded in 1828 by this. Between 1825 and 1831 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1832 Ramsey was in the sixth constituency of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1833. Since he did not run again in 1834, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1835. Since the inauguration of President Jackson in 1829, was discussed inside and outside of Congress vehemently about its policy. It was about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act, the conflict with the State of South Carolina, which culminated in the Nullifikationskrise, and banking policy of the President.

Ramsey then took a political turn. He had four Democrats and became a member of the Whig party. In the congressional elections of 1840 he was appointed as their candidate re-elected to Congress, where he was able to complete a more legislative period between 4 March 1841 to 3 March 1843. This period was characterized by the tensions between President John Tyler and the Whigs. It was also at that time already been discussed about a possible annexation of the independent Republic of Texas since 1836 by Mexico.

In 1842, Robert Ramsey gave up another candidacy. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he worked in agriculture. He died on 12 December 1849 in Warwick.