Chauncey Forward

Chauncey Forward ( born February 4, 1793 in Granby, Connecticut, † October 19, 1839 in Somerset, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1826 and 1831 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Chauncey Forward was the younger brother of Walter Forward (1786-1852), who was among other things, the U.S. Treasury and congressman. In 1800 he moved with his father to Ohio, and shortly thereafter Greensburg in Pennsylvania. He received a classical education. After a subsequent law degree in 1817 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Somerset to work in this profession. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic- Republican Party. In the 1820s he joined the movement to the future President Andrew Jackson and the Democratic Party, founded in 1828 by this. Between 1820 and 1822 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Following the resignation of Mr Alexander Thomson Forward was at the due election as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on December 4, 1826. After two re- elections he could remain until March 3, 1831 Congress. Since the inauguration of President Jackson in 1829, was discussed inside and outside of Congress vehemently about its policy. It was about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act, the conflict with the State of South Carolina, which culminated in the Nullifikationskrise, and banking policy of the President.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Chauncey Forward was employed 1831-1839 as Prothonotary and Recorder in the management of Somerset County. He died on October 19, 1839 in Somerset, where he was also buried.