Jeromus Johnson

Jeromus Johnson ( born November 2, 1775 in Wallabout, Brooklyn, New York, † September 7, 1846 in Goshen, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1825 and 1829 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Jeromus Johnson was born in the first year of the Revolutionary War in Wallabout. He attended public schools. Later he moved to New York City, where he pursued commercial transactions. He sat in the year 1822 in the New York State Assembly. Politically, he was a member of the Jacksonian Group. In the congressional elections of 1824 Johnson was the third electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded Churchill C. Cambreleng, John J. Morgan and Peter Sharpe took on March 4, 1825 which had previously together represent the third district in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was re-elected once and then retired after March 3, from 1829, the Congress of. During the time as a congressman he had presided over the Committee on Public Expenditures ( 20th Congress ). On May 26, 1830, he was appointed in the Port of New York for the Appraiser of Merchandise, a position which he held until his resignation in 1840 had held when he retired from active business and moved to Goshen. He died there on September 7, 1846 and was then buried in a private cemetery on his estate. His brother was Jeremiah Johnson (1766-1852), mayor of the then independent city of Brooklyn.