James Geddes (engineer)

James Geddes ( born July 22, 1763 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, † August 19 1838 in Camillus, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1813 and 1815 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Geddes attended the public schools of his home. He worked on the farm of his parents and was also in Carlisle for a time as a teacher. Since 1794, he lived in Onondaga County in upstate New York, where he worked in the salt production. In the area surrounding its production, he is also expanding the road network, with whose help he was able to transport the salt. Later he studied law. In 1800 he was justice of the peace in his home. Politically, he joined, founded by Alexander Hamilton Federalist Party. In 1804 he sat as an MP in the New York State Assembly; In 1809 he was appeal judges.

In the congressional elections of 1812, Geddes was in the then newly established 19th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1813. Until March 3, 1815, he was able to complete a term in Congress, which was shaped by the events of the British -American War.

In 1822 James Geddes was again a deputy in the New York State Assembly. Otherwise, he worked as a civil engineer on various channels, including the Erie Canal. He had already begun at the end of the 1800s this activity. He died on 19 August 1838 in Camillus. The town of Geddes, also located in Onondaga Country, is named after him.