James Porter (representative)

James Porter ( born April 18, 1787 Williamstown, Massachusetts, † February 7, 1839 in Albany, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1817 and 1819 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Porter was born about four years after the end of the Revolutionary War in Williamstown. He graduated in 1810 from Williams College in Williamstown. He then studied law. After receiving his license to practice law, he began to practice in Skaneateles. He sat in the years 1814 and 1815 in the New York State Assembly.

As opponents of a strong central government, he joined at that time, which was founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1816 for the 15th Congress, he was in the 19th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Victory Birdseye on March 4, 1817. Since he gave up for reelection in 1818, he retired after March 3, 1819 from the Congress.

After his conference time he went back to his work as a lawyer after. Between 1822 and 1824 he was Guardianship and estate Richter ( surrogate ) in Onondaga County. Then he moved to Albany, where he was a tab at the New York Court of Chancery was active until his death on February 7, 1839. His body was interred in Green-Wood Cemetery in the then still independent city of Brooklyn.