John Brodhead (New Hampshire politician)

John Brodhead ( born October 5, 1770 in Lower Smithfield, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, † April 7, 1838 in Newfields, New Hampshire ) was an American politician. Between 1829 and 1833 he represented the State of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Brodhead attended the common schools and the Stroudsburg Academy. After studying theology, he was ordained as a minister. In addition to its other activities Brodhead remained all his life working in this profession. In 1796 he moved to New England, where he worked on some Methodist churches in the valley of the Connecticut River. Between 1901 and 1809 he was resident in Canaan (New Hampshire). In 1809 he moved to Newfields, also in New Hampshire.

Between 1817 and 1827 Brodhead was a member of the Senate of New Hampshire; In 1825, he was chaplain of that body. In the 1820s he became a follower of Andrew Jackson, whose Democratic Party, he joined then. In the congressional elections of 1828, which were held all across the state, he was elected for the first parliamentary seat from New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he entered on March 4, 1829, the successor of Ichabod Bartlett. After a re-election in 1830 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1833 two legislative sessions. During this time the policy of also elected in 1828 President Jackson was hotly debated. It was mainly about the planned closure of the Bundesbank and the badge itself conflict with the State of South Carolina, which then led to Nullifikationskrise. Another topic of discussion was the Indian Removal Act, which President Jackson had carried out despite a contrary ruling by the Supreme Court.

For the elections of 1832 John Brodhead gave up another candidacy. In the following years he again withdrew from politics. But he remained active as a clergyman. He died in April 1838 in Newfields.