Samuel Barton (New York)

Samuel Barton ( born July 27, 1785 New Dorp, New York, † January 29, 1858 ) was an American politician. Between 1835 and 1837 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Samuel Barton was born about two years after the end of the Revolutionary War in New Dorp and grew up there. He attended community schools. He then worked as an agent of Cornelius Vanderbilt's steamship lines. He served in the National Guard of New York, where he served in 1818 the rank of Major, and in 1833 that of a colonel. In the years 1821 and 1822, he sat in the New York State Assembly. Politically, he was a member of the Jacksonian Group. It was 1833, reception committee of Andrew Jackson. In the congressional elections of 1834 Barton was in the second electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Isaac B. Van Houten on March 4, 1833. Since he resigned in 1836 to run again, he retired after the March 3, 1837 out of the Congress. Then he resumed his old occupation on at the steamship lines. In 1842 he was director of Tompkinsville Lyceum. He died on January 29, 1858 in New Dorp and was then buried in the Moravian Cemetery. About three years later the Civil War broke out.