John Bancker Aycrigg

John Bancker Aycrigg ( born July 9, 1798 in New York City; † November 8, 1856 in Passaic, New Jersey ) was an American politician. Between 1837 and 1843 he represented twice the State of New Jersey in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After leaving school, John Aycrigg studied until 1818 at the later Columbia University in New York medicine. After qualifying as a doctor he started there first in this profession to practice. Later he transferred his residence and his practice to Paramus, New Jersey. Politically, he was a member of the mid-1830s, founded the Whig Party.

In the congressional elections of 1836, he was for the second seat from New Jersey in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Samuel Fowler on March 4, 1837. Until March 3, 1839, he was initially able to complete a term in Congress. Then the Democrat William Raworth Cooper was elected his successor. In 1840 John Aycrigg made ​​the re-entry into Congress, where he replaced Cooper again on March 4, 1841 until March 3, 1843 completed a further term of office. This period was characterized by the tensions between President John Tyler and the Whigs. It was also at that time already been discussed about a possible annexation of the independent Republic of Texas since 1836 by Mexico.

In 1842, John Aycrigg renounced another Congress candidate. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he again worked as a doctor. He died on 8 November 1856 in Passaic, where he had moved in the meantime.