Daniel Cruger

Daniel Cruger ( born December 22, 1780 in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, † July 12, 1843 in Wheeling, West Virginia) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1817 and 1819 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Daniel Cruger was born during the American Revolutionary War in Northumberland County. He attended public schools. After that, he was apprenticed to the printer. Cruger gave the Owego Democrat out in Owego (New York). He studied law. In 1805 he was admitted as a lawyer and then began practicing in Bath (New York). During the British - American War he served as a major. Between 1814 and 1816 and again in 1826 he sat in the New York State Assembly. During this time he held the post of Speaker in 1816 held.

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 1816 for the 15th Congress, he was in the 20th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Daniel Avery and Oliver C. Comstock on March 4, 1817. He retired after March 3, 1819 from the Congress.

Between 1815 and 1818, he was district attorney from the Seventh District of New York, 1818-1821 from Steuben County. Then he went back his activity after as a lawyer. Cruger moved to Wheeling - then still part of Virginia - where he died on 12 July 1843. He was then buried in the Stone Church Cemetery.