Elisha I. Winter

Elisha J. Winter ( born July 15, 1781 New York City; † June 30, 1849 in Lexington, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1813 and 1815 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Elisha J. Winter was born during the Revolutionary War in New York City. He retired in 1806 in that part of the Township of Peru in Clinton County, which includes the township of Ausable today. There he went to the mining of ore. Politically, he was a member of the Federalist Party.

In the congressional elections of 1812, the 13th Congress was winter in the twelfth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Arunah Metcalf after March 4, 1813. In 1814 he suffered in his re-election bid a defeat and retired after March 3, 1815 from the Congress of.

After his conference time he moved to a farm in Lexington, Fayette County, where he worked as a farmer. He also helped there in the construction of the first railroad. Later he was president of the Lexington & Ohio Railroad. On June 30, 1849, he died in Lexington and was then buried in the same cemetery.