Gideon Barstow

Gideon Barstow ( born September 7, 1783 in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, † March 26, 1852 in St. Augustine, Florida ) was an American politician. Between 1821 and 1823 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Gideon Barstow attended the public schools of his home. Between 1799 and 1801 he studied at Brown University in Providence (Rhode Iceland ). After studying medicine and qualifying as a doctor he started in Salem to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic-Republican Party launched a political career. In 1820 he was a delegate at a meeting to revise the constitution of Massachusetts. In the congressional elections of the same year Barstow was in the second electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Nathaniel Silsbee on March 4, 1821. Since he resigned in 1822 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1823.

Between 1823 and 1837 Barstow sat several times as a delegate in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. In the years 1827 and 1834, he also belonged to the State Senate. In the presidential election of 1832 he was an elector for Henry Clay. In the 1830s, Gideon Barstow was a member of the Whig party. He later moved for health reasons to St. Augustine in Florida, where he died on 26 March 1852.