John A. Collier

John Allen Collier ( born November 13, 1787 Litchfield, Connecticut, † March 24, 1873 in Binghamton, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1831 and 1833 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives. Congressman Edwin Arthur Hall was his great-grandson.

Career

John Allen Collier was born about four years after the end of the Revolutionary War in Litchfield County. In 1803 he attended the Yale College. He studied law at the Litchfield Law School. After receiving his license to practice law in 1809 in Troy, he began practicing in Binghamton. On June 11, 1818, he was district attorney in Broome County - a post he held until February 25, 1822.

Politically he belonged to the Anti- Masonic Party on. In the congressional elections of 1830 for the 22nd Congress Collier was the 21st electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Robert Monell on March 4, 1831. He suffered in his re-election bid in 1832, a defeat and retired after the March 3, 1833 from the Congress of.

On January 27, 1841, he was Comptroller of New York - a post he held until February 7, 1842. He ran unsuccessfully in 1844 for the 29th Congress. 1847 he was appointed to the Commission, which revised the statutes. In the presidential election of 1848, he appeared as an elector for the Whig party. Then he resumed his activities as a lawyer. He died about eight years after the end of the Civil War in Binghamton and was then buried in Spring Forest Cemetery.