William Dietz (politician)

William Dietz ( born June 28, 1778 in Schoharie, New York; † August 24, 1848 ) was an American politician. Between 1825 and 1827 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Dietz was born during the War of Independence in Schoharie and grew up there. During this time he attended the district schools. He then worked in agriculture. He worked in the years 1804 and 1805 as town clerk (town clerk ). In 1812 he was Town Supervisor of Schoharie. He sat in the years 1814, 1815 and 1823 in the New York State Assembly. Politically, he was a member of the Jacksonian Group.

In the congressional elections of 1824 for the 19th Congress Dietz was in the twelfth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Lewis Eaton after March 4, 1825. He retired after March 3, 1827 from the Congress.

Between 1830 and 1833 he sat in the Senate from New York. In the presidential elections of 1832 he ran as an elector ( presidential elector ) for the Democratic Party. Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren were then the winner of the race. Then he was again engaged in farming. Dietz held in the years 1834 and 1835 the post of Superintendent of the Poor in Schoharie County. He was colonel in the militia of New York. On August 24, 1848 he died in Schoharie and was buried at the St. Paul's Lutheran Cemetery.