Henry W. Dwight

Henry Williams Dwight ( born February 26, 1788 in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, † February 21, 1845 in New York City ) was an American politician. Between 1821 and 1831 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Henry Dwight attended Williams College in Williamstown. After a subsequent law degree in 1809 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Stockbridge to work in this profession. During the British - American War, he served as Colonel Staff Officer at General Whiton. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Federalist Party, a political career. In 1818 he was elected to the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. In the 1820s he joined the movement against the future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the short-lived National Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1820 Dwight was in the seventh election district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Henry Shaw on March 4, 1821. After four elections he could pass in Congress until March 3, 1831 five legislative sessions. Since 1823 he represented there as the successor of John Reed the ninth district of his state. 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. In 1830, Dwight gave up another Congress candidate.

In 1834 he was again a deputy in the state legislature of Massachusetts. Otherwise, he worked in agriculture in the area of ​​cattle and sheep. Henry Dwight died on February 21, 1845 in New York.

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