John Carlyle Herbert

John Carlyle Herbert ( born August 16, 1775 in Alexandria, Virginia; † September 1, 1846 in Buchanan, Virginia ) was an American politician. Between 1815 and 1819 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Herbert enjoyed a private school education. In 1794, he graduated from St. John 's College in Annapolis. After a subsequent study of law and its 1795 admission to the bar he began to work in Richmond in this profession. Politically, Herbert Member, founded by Alexander Hamilton Federalist Party. In 1798 and 1799 he sat in the House of Virginia. In 1805 Herbert settled in Maryland in Prince George's County. Between 1808 and 1813 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Maryland, as its president, he served in the years 1812 and 1813. During the British -American War he was a captain of dragoons unit.

In the congressional elections of 1814 Herbert was in the second electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Joseph Kent on March 4, 1815. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1819 two legislative sessions. Since 1817 he was Chairman of the Committee for the administration of the Federal Government District District of Columbia. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives John Herbert practiced as a lawyer again. From 1820, he lived on his estate Walnut Grange in Maryland. He died on 1 September 1846 in Buchanan and was buried in Baltimore.