Horace Binney

Horace Binney ( born January 4, 1780 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † August 12, 1875 ) was an American politician. Between 1833 and 1835, he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Horace Binney spent three years at a classical school in Bordentown (New Jersey). Then he studied until 1797 at Harvard University. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1800 admitted to the bar he began to work in Philadelphia in this profession. At the same time he suggested a also a political career. In the years 1806 and 1807, he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Between 1807 and 1814 published six volumes with Binney judgments of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. He was also a director of the United States Bank. 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 1832 Binney was in the second electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Henry Horn on March 4, 1833. Since he resigned in 1834 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1835. 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.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Horace Binney withdrew from politics. He also practiced only rarely as a lawyer. Instead, he wrote legal commentaries. He died on August 12, 1875 in Philadelphia.