Austin Eli Wing

Austin Eli Wing ( born February 3, 1792 in Conway, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; † August 27, 1849 in Cleveland, Ohio ) was an American politician. Between 1825 and 1833 he represented the Michigan Territory twice as a delegate in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Even in his youth moved with his parents to Austin Wing Marietta Northwest Territory, where he attended the public schools. Then he studied until 1814 at Williams College in Williamstown. He later moved to Detroit in the Michigan Territory. There he worked as private secretary to the territorial governor Lewis Cass. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began to work in his new profession. At the same time he proposed in his new home a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1824 he was appointed as delegate of the Michigan Territory in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Gabriel Richard on March 4, 1825. After a re-election in 1826 he was initially able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1829. These were dominated by the debate between the supporters and opponents of the later President Andrew Jackson. Austin Wing was an opponent of Jackson. In the 1830s he was involved in the founding of the Whig Party in its territory, which was in opposition to Jackson's Democratic Party. After the end of his first term in the U.S. House of Representatives Wing moved to Monroe. Between March 4, 1831 March 3, 1833, he was once again represented his territory in the U.S. Congress. There was discussed at this time violently about the politics of the now elected president Andrew Jackson. It was about the controversial implementation of the Indian Removal Act, which Nullifikationskrise with the State of South Carolina and banking policy of the President.

In 1842, Wing was elected to the House of Representatives from Michigan. He was also a board member of the University of Michigan. In 1846 he was appointed U.S. Marshal for the area of the states of Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin. This office he held until 1849. He died after an illness on August 27, 1849 in a hospital in Cleveland.