Timothy Pitkin

Timothy Pitkin ( born January 21, 1766 in Farmington, Connecticut, † December 18 1847 in New Haven, Connecticut ) was an American politician. Between 1805 and 1819 he represented the state of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After a private education Timothy Pitkin went to 1785 the Yale College. He then spent a year as a teacher in Plainfield. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1788 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Farmington. Politically, he was a member of the Federalist Party, founded by Alexander Hamilton. Between 1790 and 1815 he was several times as a delegate in the House of Representatives from Connecticut. Since 1803 he was president of the house.

Following the resignation of Congressman Calvin Goddard Pitkin was at the due election as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he came into effect on September 16, 1805 at its new mandate. After he was confirmed in each case at the following regular elections that were held all across the state, he could remain until March 3, 1819 Congress. In this time the British -American War fell from 1812. In 1818 Pitkin renounced another candidacy.

In 1818 Pitkin was a delegate at a meeting to revise the constitution of Connecticut. Between 1819 and 1830 he was again a deputy in the State Parliament. He also worked as a lawyer again. Timothy Pitkin died on 18 December 1847 in New Haven.