Andrew McCord

Andrew McCord (* 1754 in Stony Ford, New York, † 1808 ) was an American politician. Between 1803 and 1805 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Andrew McCord grew up during the British colonial period. He attended community schools and the Newburgh Academy. On 7 November 1775 he was a delegate at the convention in part in New Paltz, to elect deputies for the second Provincial Congress. He was born on January 31, 1787 Quartermaster in the militia of Ulster County. McCord was promoted to Captain before he resigned on 10 April 1798. He sat in the years 1795, 1796, 1798, 1800, 1802 and 1807 in the New York State Assembly, where he served as Speaker in 1807.

As opponents of a strong central government, he joined, founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1802 McCord was in the fifth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Theodorus Bailey on March 4, 1803. He retired after March 3, 1805 from the Congress.

He then worked in agriculture. He died in 1808 in Stony Ford and was then buried in the family cemetery of his nearby farm, which was later destroyed. His remains were not reburied.

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