John Carr (Indiana)

John Carr ( born April 9, 1793 in Uniontown, Perry County, Indiana; † January 20, 1845 in Charlestown, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1831 and 1841 he represented two times the state of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1806, John Carr came with his parents in the Clark County in what was then Indiana Territory, where he attended the public schools. He then completed a military career: first at a unit of the United States Rangers, then in the state militia of Indiana. In this band he later rose to the Major General. In 1811 he participated in the Battle of Tippecanoe under the command of William Henry Harrison. After that, he was employed for several years in defense of the former western border of the United States.

Between 1824 and 1830 he served as county clerk in the administration of Clark County. Politically, Carr completed in the 1820s the movement to the future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party, founded in 1828 by this. In 1824 he was one of the electors of Jackson in the presidential elections. In the congressional elections of 1830 Carr was in the second electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Jonathan Jennings on March 4, 1831. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1837 three legislative periods. These were dominated by discussions on the policy of the incumbent since 1829 President Jackson. Since 1833, Carr took to succeed Johnathan McCarty the third district of his state. From 1835 to 1837 he was chairman of the Committee on private land claims.

In 1836, John Carr lost against William Graham of the Whig Party, which became his successor in Congress on March 4, 1837. In the elections of 1838 he was able to regain his old seat in the Third District of Indiana, and on March 4, 1839 Graham detached again in the U.S. House of Representatives. Until March 3, 1841, he spent another term in Congress. In 1840 he gave up another candidacy. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Carr retired from politics. He died on January 20, 1845 in Charlestown.