David Kidder

David Kidder ( born December 8, 1787 Dresden, Massachusetts, † November 1, 1860 in Skowhegan, Maine ) was an American politician. Between 1823 and 1827 he represented the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

David Kidder was born in 1787 in Dresden, which at that time was still part of Massachusetts, and is since 1820 part of the State of Maine. He enjoyed a good private school. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he started in Bloomfield to work in his new profession. In 1817 he moved to Skowhegan and Norridgewock 1821. Between 1811 and 1823 he was district attorney in Somerset County.

Politically Kidder was a member of the Democratic- Republican Party. After their fragmentation into different wings in the 1820s, he joined the Group in order to later President John Quincy Adams. In the congressional elections of 1822 he was in the seventh constituency of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Enoch Lincoln on March 4, 1823. After a re-election in 1824 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1827 two legislative sessions. This time was determined by the tensions between the supporters of his group and those of the future President Andrew Jackson.

In 1826, Kidder gave up another candidacy. He settled back in Skowhegan, where he practiced law. In 1829 he was elected to the House of Representatives from Maine. Thereafter he devoted himself exclusively to his private lawyer and activities. David Kidder died on November 1, 1860 in Skowhegan.