John C. Ten Eyck

John Conover Ten Eyck (* March 12, 1814 in Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey; † August 24, 1879 in Mount Holly, New Jersey ) was an American politician ( Republican) of the State of New Jersey in the U.S. Senate represented.

After he had prepared under the guidance of private teachers to the study, John Ten Eyck was trained as a lawyer and in 1835 was added to the bar, after which he began practicing in Burlington. From 1839 to 1840 he was a prosecutor in Burlington County; in 1844 he took part in the Constitutional Convention of New Jersey.

As the first member of his party Ten Eyck in 1858 for New Jersey elected to the U.S. Senate; He sat down beside it against the Democratic incumbent William Wright by and took its mandate from 3 March 1859. As for his part he failed in the attempt to re-election at the Democrat John P. Stockton, he had to resign from the Congress on March 3, 1865 again. As a result, he was politically hardly active; only in 1875, he belonged to a Commission which had the mandate to revise the State Constitution of New Jersey. At times, he was President of this Commission.