Rowland Day

Rowland Day ( * March 6, 1779 in Chester, Massachusetts, † December 23, 1853 in Moravia, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1823 and 1825, and 1833-1835 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Rowland Day was born during the War of Independence in Hampden County. The family moved in 1805 after he Skaneateles and 1810 from there to Moravia. Day went to commercial transactions. He sat in 1816 and 1817 in the New York State Assembly. In 1821 he took part in the Convention for the purpose of revising the Constitution of New York. He then moved to Sempronius. There he held several local offices.

As a result of fragmentation of the Democratic-Republican Party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), he joined the Crawford Group. In the congressional elections of 1822 for the 18th Congress Day was on the 24th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he was the first representative of the district in the U.S. House of Representatives began its service on March 4, 1823. He retired after the March 3, 1825 out of the Congress. In the following years he joined the Jacksonian Group. In 1834 he ran for the 23rd Congress. After a successful election, he resigned on March 4, 1832 in the footsteps of Ulysses F. Doubleday. He then retired after March 3 in 1935 from the Congress.

After his conference time he returned to commercial transactions. He died about eight years before the outbreak of the civil war in Moravia and was then buried in Indian Mound Cemetery.