Barzillai Gannett

Barzillai Gannett ( born June 17, 1764 in Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, † 1832 in New York City ) was an American politician. Between 1809 and 1812 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Barzillai Gannett graduated in 1785, the Yale College and studied theology after. As a result, he has not acted as a theologian. Instead, he embarked on a political career. Between 1793 and 1802, he sat on several occasions in the council of Pittston in the former Maine District of the State of Massachusetts. In this city he held some local offices. Then he moved to Gardiner, where he was also a member of the municipal council. Between 1804 and 1809 he served as postmaster in this city, in which he also did not engage in further posts. He was a member of the end of the 1790s by Thomas Jefferson founded the Democratic-Republican Party. In the years 1805 and 1806 he was a member of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts. After that he belonged 1807-1808 to the State Senate.

In the congressional elections of 1808, Gannett was in the 17th electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Chandler on March 4, 1809. After a re-election, he could remain until his resignation in 1812 in Congress. Due to a prosecution for embezzlement Barzillai Gannett fled his home to Ohio. He changed his name and called himself Benjamin Gardiner. Around the year 1822 he suddenly left Ohio; then lose track of him. The only certainty is that he died in New York in 1832.