John G. Floyd

John Gelston Floyd ( born February 5, 1806 Mastic, New York, † October 5, 1881 ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1839 and 1843, and 1851-1853, he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Gelston Floyd was born in Mastic Moriches at about six years before the outbreak of the British - American War, and grew up there. He attended community schools and then graduated in 1824 from Hamilton College in Clinton. Floyd studied law and commenced practice in Utica after obtaining his approval in 1825. From 1829 to 1833, he was there as a law clerk ( clerk ) and Attorney ( prosecuting attorney ) worked. In 1836 he founded the Utica Democrat ( later Observer - Dispatch) and was appointed as a judge in Suffolk County later. Between 1839 and 1843 he sat in the New York State Assembly.

In the congressional elections of 1838, he was the first electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John A. King on March 4, 1839. After a successful re-election in 1840, he opted not to run again and was eliminated after March 3, 1843 from the Congress of. He returned in 1842 back to Mastic. There he sat in the years 1848 and 1849 in the Senate from New York. After he was elected in 1850 in the 17th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of Abraham P. Grant on March 4, 1851. Since he gave up for reelection in 1852, he retired after the March 3, 1853 out of the Congress. During his time as a congressman he had presided over the Committee on Agriculture (32nd Congress ).

After the founding of the Republican Party in 1856 Floyd joined her. Then he withdrew from public life. He died on 5 October 1881 in Mastic and was then buried in the family cemetery. His grandfather was William Floyd.