Gouverneur Kemble

Gouverneur Kemble ( born January 25, 1786 in New York City; † September 16, 1875 in Cold Spring, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1837 and 1841 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Gouverneur Kemble was born about two and a half years after the end of the Revolutionary War in New York City. He enjoyed a good education and graduated in 1803 from Columbia College (now Columbia University) in New York City. He then worked in agriculture. During a visit to Spain in 1816, he studied the process the canon cast. After his return to the United States he established a cannon foundry in Cold Spring. During the Second Barbary War with Tripoli, he served in the Mediterranean as Naval Agent.

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1836 Kemble was in the fourth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Aaron Ward on March 4, 1837. He was re-elected once. Since he gave up for reelection in 1840, he retired after the March 3, 1841 out of the Congress.

Then he took in 1844 and 1860 to the Democratic National Conventions in part, and in 1846 to the Constituent Assembly of New York. In his last years he promoted the Hudson River Railroad and the Panama Railway. He died on September 16, 1875 in Cold Spring, and was buried there.