John Ewing (politician)

John Ewing ( born May 19, 1789 in Cork, Ireland, † April 6, 1858 in Vincennes, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1833 and 1839 he represented two times the state of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Even in his youth, John Ewing came with his parents to the United States, where the family first settled in Baltimore ( Maryland). There he attended the public schools. In 1813 he moved to Vincennes in the Indiana Territory. There he was, among other things publishes a local newspaper. Between 1816 and 1820 Ewing was an Associate Judge of the District Court in Knox County. In the years 1816 and 1821 he ran unsuccessfully for the Senate from Indiana. He was also a member of the state militia, and was in 1825 promoted to lieutenant colonel in this unit.

Politically, Ewing was an opponent of the future President Andrew Jackson. End of the 1820s he became a member of the short-lived National Republican Party; Mid-1830s he joined the Whig Party was founded at that time. Between 1825 and 1833 he was in the state Senate. In the congressional elections of 1832 Ewing was in the second electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded John Carr took up on March 3, 1833, who moved to the third district. Until March 3, 1835, he was able to complete a term in Congress. This was marked by discussions on the policies of President Jackson. During this time it was mainly about the Nullifikationskrise with the State of South Carolina and banking policy of the President.

In the elections of 1836 Ewing was re-elected in the second district of his state in Congress, where he was the Democrat John Wesley Davis removed again on March 4, 1837 which was two years before become his successor. Since he lost again in 1838 against Davis, he could spend up to March 3, 1839 just another term in the U.S. House of Representatives. In the years 1842 to 1844 John Ewing was again a member of the Senate of Indiana; then he withdrew into retirement. He died on 6 April 1858 in Vincennes.