Job Durfee

Job Durfee ( born September 20, 1790 in Tiverton, Rhode Iceland, † July 26, 1847 ) was an American politician. Between 1821 and 1825 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Rhode Iceland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Job Durfee attended the common schools and then studied until 1813 at Brown University in Providence. After a subsequent law degree in 1817 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in his home town of Tiverton in this profession.

Durfee was a member of the Democratic- Republican Party. After its dissolution in the 1820s he joined the so-called Adams - Clay - Republicans who were in opposition to Andrew Jackson and his Democratic Party. Between 1816 and 1820 Durfee was a deputy in the House of Representatives from Rhode Iceland.

In 1820 he was elected for the second seat in parliament of the state of Rhode Iceland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he took on March 4, 1821 the seat, the above who died on December 17, 1820 Nathaniel Hazard held. After a re-election in 1822 Durfee could remain until March 3, 1825 in Congress. In the elections of 1824 he was inferior to Dutee Jerauld Pearce. 1828 failed another bid for a return to Congress.

Between 1826 and 1829 Durfee was further delegate in the House of Representatives from Rhode Iceland, where he was its president since 1827. He then worked as a lawyer. In 1833 he became an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of his State, and in June 1835 he was appointed as Chief Justice of the Presiding Judge. This office he held until his death in 1847. Job Durfee was also known as the author of several literary works.