Arunah Metcalf

Arunah Metcalf ( born August 15, 1771 in Connecticut; † August 15, 1848 in Otsego (now Cooperstown ), New York ) was an American politician. Between 1811 and 1813, he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Arunah Metcalf, son of Lydia Bourne (1734-1779) and Zebulon Metcalf (1729-1802), was born about two years before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War in Connecticut. He attended community schools. In 1793 he married Eunice Williams ( 1775-1844 ), daughter of Lucy Walsworth and Captain Veach ( Vetch ) Williams. The couple had five children together. Nathan and Orlando were still in Connecticut to the world. 1802 the family moved to New York and settled on a high mountain above the Otsego Lake, which is known as Metcalf Hill today. There, Mary, Susannah and Lucien T. came to the world.

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 1810 for the 12th Congress, he was in the twelfth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Erastus Root after March 4, 1811. He retired after the March 3, 1813 out of the Congress.

Between 1814 and 1816 he sat in the New York State Assembly. He was 1818 president of the Otsego County Agricultural Society. In 1819 he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Senate from New York. He sat again in 1828 in the New York State Assembly. On August 15, 1848 he died in Cooperstown.