Elisha Haley

Elisha Haley ( born January 21, 1776 in Groton, Connecticut; † January 22, 1860 ) was an American politician. Between 1835 and 1839 he represented the state of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Elisha Haley attended the common schools and worked in agriculture. Later, he also began a political career. Between 1820 and 1834 he was several times as a delegate in the House of Representatives from Connecticut. In 1830 he was a member of the State Senate. He was also a captain in the militia of his state.

Haley was a supporter of Andrew Jackson and later became a member of the Democratic Party, founded by this. In the congressional elections of 1834 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took over the hitherto exercised by Ebenezer Young mandate on March 4, 1835. After a re-election in 1836, he could remain until March 3, 1839 Congress. Since 1837 he was Chairman of the Committee for the control of public expenditure.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Haley withdrew from politics. He worked in the following years in the construction industry. Elisha Haley died in January 1860 in his birthplace of Groton.

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