John Galbraith (Pennsylvania politician)

John Galbraith ( born August 2, 1794 in Huntingdon, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, † June 15, 1860 in Erie, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1833 and 1837, and again from 1839 to 1841, he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1796 John Galbraith moved with his parents to Allegheny in Huntingdon County and in 1802 continued to Centre Township, Butler County. He attended the public schools of his respective home. He then completed an apprenticeship in the printing trade. For several years he also taught as a teacher. After studying law and his 1817 was admitted to the bar he began in Butler to work in this profession. In 1822 he moved his residence and his law firm to Franklin. In the 1820s he joined the movement to the future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party, founded in 1828 by this. From 1829 to 1832 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1832 Galbraith was in the then newly established 25th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1833. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1837 two legislative sessions. These were dominated by discussions on the policies of President Jackson. In 1836, he was not nominated by his party for re-election.

After the end of his first term in the U.S. House of Representatives John Galbraith moved to Erie, where he practiced law. In the congressional elections of 1838, he was re-elected in the 25th district of his state in Congress, where he replaced Arnold Plumer on March 4, 1839 which was two years before become his successor. Since he resigned in 1840 to further Congress 's candidacy, he could spend up to March 3, 1841 just another term in the U.S. House of Representatives.

After the final end of his time in Congress, John Galbraith was initially returned to the bar. In 1851 he was elected presiding judge of the sixth judicial district of his state. This office he held until his death on June 15, 1860 in Erie.