Daniel D. Barnard

Daniel Dewey Barnard (* July 16, 1797 in Sheffield, Massachusetts, † April 24, 1861 in Albany, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. He represented 1827-1829 and 1839-1845 the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Daniel Dewey Barnard was born shortly before the end of the 18th century in Sheffield. He attended community schools and graduated in 1818 from Williams College in Williamstown. Barnard studied law. His admission to the bar he received in 1821 and then began in Rochester (New York) to practice. In 1826 he was Attorney ( prosecuting attorney ) in Monroe County.

As a result of fragmentation of the Democratic-Republican Party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), he joined the at the time of the Adams Group. In the congressional elections of 1826 for the 20th Congress Barnard was in the 27th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Moses Hayden on March 4, 1827. In 1828 he suffered in his re-election bid a defeat and retired after March 3, from 1829, the Congress of.

He traveled to Europe in 1831. After his return in 1832 he moved to Albany, where he worked as a lawyer again. In 1838 he sat in the New York State Assembly.

In 1838 he was a candidate in the tenth electoral district of New York for the 26th Congress. After a successful election, he entered on March 4, 1839, the successor of Albert Gallup. He was re-elected once. As a Congressman he had at that time presided over the Justice Committee ( Committee on the Judiciary ) in the 27th Congress. In 1842 he successfully ran in the 13th electoral district of New York for the 28th Congress, where he became the successor of Thomas A. Tomlinson on March 4, 1843. Since he gave up for reelection in 1844, he retired after the March 3, 1845 out of the Congress.

President Millard Fillmore appointed him on September 3, 1850 as the successor to Edward A. Hannegan Minister to Prussia - a position that he held until 21 September 1853. After his return to the United States in 1853, he retired from active business and was active literary. He died on April 24, 1861 in Albany and was then buried in the Albany Rural Cemetery. Twelve days before the civil war had broken out.