Horace Everett

Horace Everett (* July 17, 1779 in Foxboro, Massachusetts, † January 30, 1851 in Windsor, Vermont ) was an American politician. From 1829 to 1843 he represented the third electoral district of the state of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After primary school, Horace Everett attended Brown University in Providence (Rhode Iceland ). He then studied law. After his made ​​in 1801 admitted to the bar he began in Windsor ( Vermont) to work in his new profession. Between 1813 and 1818, he was district attorney in Windsor County. Between 1819 and 1824 he was several times as a delegate in the House of Representatives from Vermont. In 1828 he was a delegate at a meeting to revise the State Constitution. Politically, he joined first the National Republican Party, which was in opposition to the Democratic Party, founded by Andrew Jackson. After the dissolution of his party Everett was a member of the Whigs.

1828 Everett was selected as the candidate of Nationalrepublikaner in the third district of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he entered on March 4, 1829, the successor of George Edward Wales. In the following six congressional elections, he was confirmed in each case in its mandate. So that he could remain until March 3, 1843 a total of seven legislative sessions in Congress. Since the elections of 1836 he was there as a member of the Whigs. During his tenure in the House of Representatives, there was heated debate surrounding the policy of President Jackson because of the bank and the question Nullifikationskrise with the State of South Carolina. Towards the end of his tenure he experienced the tensions between his party and the original also elected as a Whig candidate President John Tyler.

After the end of his time in Congress Horace Everett retired from politics. He died in January 1851 in Windsor.