Jeremiah Nelson

Jeremiah Nelson ( born 14 September 1769 in Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts, † October 2, 1838 in Newburyport, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1805 and 1833 he represented three times the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Jeremiah Nelson attended the public schools of his native land and from then until 1790, Dartmouth College in Hanover (New Hampshire). He then worked in Newburyport in the trade. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Federalist Party. In the years 1803 and 1804 he was a member of the Massachusetts General Court In the congressional elections of 1804 Nelson was the third election district of his state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Manasseh Cutler on March 4, 1805. Since he resigned in 1806 his candidacy for re-election, he could prefer to take only one term in Congress until March 3, 1807.

1811 Nelson was Chairman of the Municipal Council in Newburyport. In the elections of 1814 he was elected again in the third district of his state in Congress, where he replaced Timothy Pickering on March 4, 1815. After four elections he could spend in Congress until March 3, 1825 five further terms. Since 1821 he headed the Committee for the control of expenditure on state property. In 1824, he did not stand for re-election.

In the 1820s, Nelson joined the movement to President John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay and became a member of the short-lived National Republican Party. In 1829 he became president of the Mutual Fire Insurance Company Newburyport Fire Insurance Co. In 1830, he was last elected to Congress, where he became the successor of John Varnum on March 4, 1831. Since the inauguration of President Andrew 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.

In 1832, Jeremiah Nelson did not run for Congress. After the final end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he worked in the shipping trade. He died on 2 October 1838 in Newburyport.