Abijah Mann, Jr.

Abijah man junior ( * September 24, 1793 in Fairfield, New York, † September 6, 1868 in Auburn, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1833 and 1837 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Abijah Mann Jr. was born ten years after the end of the Revolutionary War in Fairfield in Herkimer County. He attended community schools. He then went to commercial transactions. He has held the post of justice of the peace. President Andrew Jackson appointed him postmaster in Fairfield - a position which he held on 28 May 1830 to 16 January 1833. Between 1828 and 1830, and in 1838 he sat in the New York State Assembly. Politically, he was a member of the Jacksonian Group.

In the congressional elections of 1832 for the 23rd Congress man in the 16th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Nathan Soule on March 4, 1833. He was re-elected once. In 1836 he suffered in his renewed candidacy defeat and retired after the March 3, 1837 from the Congress of.

Husband moved to New York City. In 1855, he ran unsuccessfully as a Republican for the post of Attorney General of New York. He took 1856 as a delegate to the Republican State Convention in part. Then he ran in 1857 unsuccessfully for a seat in the Senate from New York. On September 6, 1868, he died in Auburn. At the time of the Civil War was over for about three years.

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