Churchill C. Cambreleng

Churchill Caldom Cambreleng ( born October 24, 1786 in Washington, North Carolina, † April 30, 1862 in Huntington, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1821 and 1839 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Churchill Caldom Cambreleng was born about three years after the end of the Revolutionary War in Washington, where he spent the first few years. He attended school in New Bern. His family moved in 1802 to New York City, where he became a clerk ( clerk ) and a commercial business pursued. Politically, he was a member of the founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1820 Cambreleng was in the second electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded Henry Meigs and Peter H. Wendover took on March 4, 1821 which previously together represented the second district in the U.S. House of Representatives. As a result of fragmentation of his party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829) changed his political allegiance several times. In the congressional elections of 1822, he was elected as supporters of Crawford Group in the third electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of Jeremiah H. Pierson on March 4, 1823. He was re-elected seven times in a row. In his re-election in 1824, he belonged to the Jacksonian Group and in his re-election in 1836, the Democratic Party. Since he suffered a defeat in its tenth candidacy in 1838, he retired after March 3, 1839, from from the Congress. During this time, he had presided over the Committee on Commerce ( 20th to 22nd Congress ), the Committee on Foreign Affairs ( 23rd Congress ) and more recently on the Committee on Ways and Means ( 24th to 25th Congress ).

Cambreleng was appointed on 20 May 1840 by President Van Buren as successor of George Mifflin Dallas to the U.S. ambassador to Russia - a position which he held until July 13, 1841. Then he took 1846 on the Constituent Assembly of New York. When he died in Huntington on April 30, 1862, began shortly before the second year of the Civil War. His body was then buried at the Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn.