Adam W. Snyder

Adam Wilson Snyder ( born October 6, 1799 in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, † May 14 1842 in Belleville, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1837 and 1839 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Adam Snyder attended the public schools of his home. In 1817 he moved to Cahokia in the Illinois territory. After a subsequent law degree in 1820 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in his new hometown in this profession. In the years 1822 and 1823 he was prosecutor in the first judicial district of 1818 created new State of Illinois. Otherwise, he practiced as a lawyer again. He also worked in agriculture. Between 1830 and 1834 he was in the Illinois Senate. During the Black Hawk War in 1832, Snyder was a captain in the state militia. He remained after the war a member of the militia, in which he rose to the colonel. In 1833 he moved to Belleville. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party. In 1834 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress yet.

In the congressional elections of 1836 Snyder was but then in the first electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Reynolds on March 4, 1837. Since he resigned in 1838 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1839. In the years 1840 and 1841 Snyder was again a member of the Senate from Illinois. In 1842 he was nominated by his party as a candidate for the forthcoming gubernatorial election in Illinois. But he died before the election date on 14 May 1842 in Belleville.