John Benton Sterigere

John Benton Sterigere ( born July 31 1793 in Upper Dublin, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, † October 13, 1852 in Norristown, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1827 and 1831 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Sterigere attended the public schools of his home while also working on a farm. In 1818 he was justice of the peace in his home. Between 1821 and 1824 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. After studying law and his 1829 was admitted to the bar he began in Norristown to work in this profession. This, he performed in parallel to his mandate as congressman. In the 1820s he joined the movement to the future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party, founded in 1828 by this.

In the congressional elections of 1826 Sterigere in the fifth electoral district of Pennsylvania was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Philip Swenk Markley on March 4, 1827. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1831 two legislative sessions. Since 1829 he was chairman of the Committee on Private Land Claims. Since the inauguration of President 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.

1838 took Sterigere as a delegate part in a constitutional convention in his home state. In 1839, and again from 1843 to 1846 he was a member of the State Senate; in June 1852 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore, was nominated on the Franklin Pierce as a presidential candidate. John Sterigere was meanwhile in his home, the newspaper tab out and was a member of a commission to improve the infrastructure of the city Norristown. There he died on 13 October 1852.