Gayton P. Osgood

Gayton Pickman Osgood ( born July 4, 1797 in Salem, Massachusetts, † June 26 1861 in Andover, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1833 and 1835, he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Gayton Osgood studied until 1815 at Harvard University. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he started in Salem to work in this profession. In 1819 he moved to North Andover. In the 1820s he joined the movement to the later U.S. President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party, founded in 1828 by this. From 1829 to 1831 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts.

In the congressional elections of 1832 Osgood was in the third electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Jeremiah Nelson on March 4, 1833. Since he was not nominated by his party for re-election in 1834, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1835. During this time it was discussed within and outside the Congress vehemently about the policies of President Jackson. 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 to Gayton Osgood retired from politics. In the following years he worked in agriculture. He died on 26 June 1861 in Andover.