Ichabod Bartlett

Ichabod Bartlett ( born July 24, 1786 in Salisbury, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, † October 19, 1853 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire ) was an American politician. Between 1823 and 1829 he represented the State of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After a good primary education Ichabod Bartlett attended to 1808 Dartmouth College in Hanover. After studying law and its made ​​in 1811 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Durham, Strafford County. In 1816 he moved his residence and his law firm to Portsmouth. In the years 1817 and 1818, he was employed by the administration of the State Senate. Between 1819 and 1821 he was a prosecutor in Rockingham County.

Bartlett was originally a member of the Democratic- Republican Party. After this had dissolved in the 1820s, he joined the group led by John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay, later to become the National Republican Party emerged. Between 1819 and 1821 he was a member of the House of Representatives from New Hampshire, he served as its chairman in 1821. In the congressional elections of 1822, which were held all across the state, Bartlett was the first parliamentary seat from New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1823, the successor of Josiah Butler. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1829 three legislative periods. Above all, since 1825, there were violent political clashes between the National Republicans and the supporters of Andrew Jackson, which should establish itself as the Democratic Party soon.

Between 1830 and 1852 Bartlett was several times delegate in the House of Representatives of his State. In the years 1831 and 1832, he ran unsuccessfully for the office of each Governor of New Hampshire; in both cases, he lost to Samuel Dinsmoor. 1850 Bartlett was a member of a meeting to revise the State Constitution. He died on 19 October 1853 in Portsmouth.