Andrew T. Judson

Andrew Thompson Judson ( born November 29, 1784 in Eastford, Windham County, Connecticut, † March 17, 1853 in Canterbury, Connecticut ) was an American politician. Between 1835 and 1836 he represented the state of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Andrew Judson received a below average primary schooling. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1806 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Montpelier (Vermont ). In 1809 he moved to Canterbury in Connecticut. Between 1819 and 1833 he was District Attorney in Windham County, from 1822 to 1825 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Connecticut. Politically, he joined Andrew Jackson and his Democratic Party.

In the state- wide discharged congressional elections of 1834, Judson was for the sixth parliamentary seat of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1835, the successor of Samuel Tweedy. Judson exercised its mandate in Congress until July 4, 1836. On this day, he laid it down, because he had been appointed by President Jackson as a judge at the Federal District Court for Connecticut. This office he held until his death on 17 March 1853 in Canterbury.