William Cahoon

William Cahoon ( born January 12, 1774 Providence, Rhode Iceland, † May 30 1833 in Lyndon, Vermont ) was an American politician. Between 1829 and 1833 he represented the fifth electoral district of the state of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Cahoon attended the public schools of his home. In 1791 he came with his parents to Lyndon in Vermont, where he worked in the mill business and agriculture. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic- Republican Party. Between 1802 and 1810 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Vermont. In the presidential election of 1808 he was one of the electors of his party, the James Madison chose the 4th U.S. president. From 1811 to 1819 Cahoon was district judge, suggesting an earlier study of law. Both in 1814 and 1828, he participated in meetings to revise the Constitution of Vermont as a delegate. From 1815 to 1820 Cahoon was a member of the Governing Council of his native country; 1820-1821 he was the deputy governor.

After the dissolution of his party in the 1820s Cahoon the short-lived Anti- Masonic Party joined. In the congressional elections of 1828, he was elected as its candidate in the fifth district of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Daniel Azro Ashley Buck on March 4, 1829. After a re-election in 1830, he could remain until March 3, 1833 in Congress. There he experienced the discussions about the policies of President Andrew Jackson, the Nullifikationskrise and the dispute over the closure of the Bundesbank. In the elections of 1832 he was defeated Benjamin F. Deming.

William Cahoon died only a few months after the end of his time in Congress on May 30, 1833 in Lyndon, where he was also buried.