Thomas Sinnickson (politician)

Thomas Sinnickson ( born December 13, 1786 in Salem, Salem County, New Jersey, † February 17, 1873 ) was an American politician. In the years 1828 and 1829 he represented the State of New Jersey in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Sinnickson attended the public schools of his home and was then engaged in trade. He also became a judge in a court of appeal. This post he held for over 20 years. Politically Sinnickson was in the 1820s to a supporters of President John Quincy Adams. At the end of the decade he became a member of the short-lived National Republican Party. Meanwhile Sinnickson sat as an MP in the New Jersey General Assembly.

After the death of Mr Hedge Thompson Sinnickson was at the due election for the first seat of New Jersey as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on December 1, 1828. Since he resigned at the regular congressional elections of 1828 on another candidacy, he could only finish the current legislative period to March 3, 1829.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives to Sinnickson moved back out of politics. As a result, he took his previous activities neither. He died on 17 February 1873 in his native Salem. His eponymous uncle Thomas also was a member of the Congress for the State of New Jersey. He was also related to the deputies Clement Hall Sinnickson ( 1834-1919 ).