George Petrie (New York)

George Petrie ( born September 8, 1793 in Little Falls, New York, † May 8, 1879 ) was an American politician. Between 1847 and 1849 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Petrie was born about a decade after the end of the Revolutionary War in Little Falls in Herkimer County and grew up there. He attended community schools. In the congressional elections of 1846 for the 30th Congress Petrie was an independent Democrat in the 17th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charles S. Benton on March 4, 1847. He retired after March 3, 1849 from the Congress. On January 1, 1869, he began in the Post Office Department in Washington DC to work on - a position which he held until his resignation on 31 August 1875. He died on 8 May 1879 in Little Falls and was then buried in the Church Street Cemetery.