David Douglas Wagener

David Douglas Wagener ( born October 11, 1792 in Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, † October 1, 1860 ) was an American politician. Between 1833 and 1841 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

David Wagener attended the public schools of his home. Between 1816 and 1829 he was a captain in the militia of Easton ( Easton Union Guards ). He then worked in various areas such as agriculture and the banking industry. He was also active in the trade. In the 1820s he joined the movement to the future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party, founded in 1828 by this. Between 1828 and 1832 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1832 Wagener was the seventh constituency of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded Henry King took up on March 4, 1833, who joined in the eleventh district. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1841 four legislative sessions. From 1837 to 1839 he was chairman of the Committee on Militia. 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 David Wagener took his previous activities on again. In 1852 he founded the Easton Bank, which he was president until his death on October 1, 1860.