Albert H. Tracy

Albert Haller Tracy ( born June 17, 1793 in Norwich, Connecticut; † September 19, 1859 in Buffalo, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1819 and 1825 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives. Congressman Phineas L. Tracy was his brother.

Career

Albert Haller Tracy was born about ten years after the end of the Revolutionary War in New London County. He pursued classical archeology. He then studied medicine. In 1811 he moved to New York. He gave up medicine and studied law. After receiving his license to practice law in 1815, he began practicing in Buffalo.

As opponents of a strong central government, he joined at that time, which was founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1818 for the 16th Congress Tracy was in the 21st electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded Nathaniel Allen and John Canfield Spencer took on March 4, 1819 which together previously represented the 21th District in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was re-elected once. As a result of fragmentation of the Democratic-Republican Party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), he joined the Adams - Clay fraction. In 1822 he was a candidate in the 30th electoral district of New York. After a successful election, he resigned on March 4, 1823 as the first representative of the district to the service in the U.S. House of Representatives. He retired after the March 3, 1825 out of the Congress. During his time Congress he had presided over the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury ( 17th Congress ).

He sat 1830-1837 in the Senate from New York. In 1839 he ran unsuccessfully as a candidate of the Whig for the U.S. Senate. He died about two years before the outbreak of the Civil War in Buffalo.