John D. McCrate

John Dennis McCrate ( born October 1, 1802 in Wiscasset, Lincoln County, Massachusetts, † September 11, 1879 in Sutton, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. From 1845 to 1847 he represented the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John McCrate was born in 1802 in Wiscasset, which at that time was still part of Massachusetts, and is since 1820 part of the then created the state of Maine. He attended until 1819, the Bowdoin College in Brunswick. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1823 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Damariscotta. Since 1835, he has been resident in Wiscasset. At the same time McCrate began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1831 and 1835, he was a member of the House of Representatives of Maine; 1836 to 1841 he worked for the customs authorities.

In the congressional elections of 1844 he was in the fourth electoral district of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Freeman H. Morse on March 4, 1845. Until March 3, 1847, he graduated only one term in Congress. This was determined by the events of the Mexican-American War, which was triggered by the accession of the independent Republic of Texas to the Union since 1836.

After his time in the House of Representatives John McCrate first worked again as a lawyer in Wiscasset. Soon after, he moved to Boston, where he continued to practice until 1852 as a lawyer. He then settled in Sutton and devoted himself to agriculture. In this city, John McCrate on September 11, 1879 and passed away.