Daniel Avery

Daniel Avery ( born September 18, 1766 Groton, Connecticut; † January 30, 1842 in Aurora, New York ) was an American politician. He represented 1811-1815 and in the years 1815 and 1816 New York State in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Daniel Avery was born during the British colonial period in Groton and grew up there. During this time he attended community schools. He signed up as Ensign in the sixth company of the Eighth Regiment of the Connecticut Militia, where he served until May in 1794. During this time he rose from lieutenant to captain on. In 1795 he moved to Aurora in Cayuga County, where he became a large landowner. He left the land was cultivated by tenants. He married Alice Anne Brown of Bristol. The couple had a son, Daniel Dudley Avery ( 1810-1879 ).

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 14th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Vincent Mathews on March 4, 1811. In 1812 he was a candidate in the 20th Election District of New York for the 13th Congress. After a successful election, he resigned on March 4, 1813 as the first representative of the district in the U.S. House of Representatives his service. Since he gave up for reelection in 1814, he retired after the March 3, 1815 out of the Congress. He was, however, elected in a by-election on September 30, 1816 in the U.S. House of Representatives, there to fill the vacancy that was created by the resignation of Enos T. Throop. On 3 March 1817, he resigned from the Congress.

After his conference time he managed his estate and stood for twenty years with the Land Registry in Albany in connection. He died on January 30, 1842 in Aurora and was then buried in the Oak Glen Cemetery. About four years later, the Mexican -American War broke out.