Grattan H. Wheeler
Grattan Henry Wheeler (* August 25, 1783 in Providence, Rhode Iceland, † March 11, 1852 in Wheeler, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1831 and 1833 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
Grattan Henry Wheeler was born about two weeks before the end of the Revolutionary War in Providence County. He attended public schools and a Preparatory School. The family then moved to New York and settled in 1800 in Steuben County down. He worked as a farmer and lumberman at Wheeler (New York). Then he sat in 1822, 1824 and 1826 in the New York State Assembly and 1826-1830 in the Senate from New York. Politically he belonged to that time of the Anti- Masonic Party on.
In the congressional elections of 1830 for the 22nd Congress Wheeler was the 28th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Magee on March 4, 1831. He suffered in his renewed candidacy in 1832 a defeat and then retired after the March 3, 1833 from the Congress of.
After his conference time he went to his former business activities. In the presidential election of 1840 he stood as an elector for the Whig party. He died about three years after the end of the Mexican - American War in Wheeler. His body was then buried in a private cemetery on the Wheeler property.