Gulian C. Verplanck

Crommelin Verplanck Gulian ( born August 6 1786 in New York City; † March 18, 1870 ) was an American politician. Between 1825 and 1833 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Gulian Verplanck was the son of Congressman Daniel C. Verplanck ( 1762-1834 ). In 1801, he graduated from Columbia College, Columbia University today. After a subsequent law degree in 1807 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career. Between 1820 and 1823 he was a deputy in the New York State Assembly. From 1821 to 1824 he served on the faculty of the General Theological Seminary in New York City. Between 1823 and 1865 he was director of the city hospital; 1826 to 1870, he served as Regent board member of the University of the State of New York. Since 1858 he was the Vice-Chancellor.

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. In the congressional elections of 1824 Verplanck in the third electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Peter Sharpe on March 4, 1825. He took one of three seats of his district one; this time it was a special arrangement for the state of New York. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1833 four legislative sessions. Since 1831 he was chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means. Since the inauguration of President Jackson in 1829, was discussed inside and outside of Congress vehemently about its policy. 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. About the discussions about the destruction of the federal bench by President Jackson came the break Verplancks with this and the Democratic party, which he then left. In 1832 he was therefore no longer nominated for re-election.

In the 1830s, Verplanck joined the Whig party to. In 1834 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of mayor of New York. Between 1838 and 1841 he sat in the Senate from New York. From 1846 and 1870 he was chairman of the Immigration Commission of his state. During 1867 and 1868 he was part of a Constitutional Convention of the State of New York. Politically, he moved in the 1850s back to the Democrats, where he served for the rest of his life. Gulian Verplanck died on March 18, 1870 in New York City.