John Gilmore (representative)

John Gilmore ( born February 18, 1780 Somerset County, Pennsylvania, † May 11 1845 in Butler, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1829 and 1833 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Even in his year of birth 1780 John Gilmore moved with his parents to Washington ( Pennsylvania), where he later attended the public schools. After a subsequent law degree in 1801 and its recent approval as a lawyer in Washington, he began to work in this profession. Since 1803 he has been resident in the city of Butler. In the same year he was appointed deputy prosecutor in the local Butler County. At the same time he embarked on a political career. Between 1816 and 1821 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, which he was president in 1821. 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.

In the congressional elections of 1828 Gilmore was in the 16th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Robert Orr on March 4, 1829. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1833 two legislative sessions. Since the inauguration of President Jackson in 1829, was discussed inside and outside of Congress vehemently about its policy. It was about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act, the conflict with the State of South Carolina, which culminated in the Nullifikationskrise, and banking policy of the President.

In 1841, John Gilmore was elected Minister of Finance of the State of Pennsylvania. He died on 11 May 1845 in Butler, where he was also buried. His son Alfred (1812-1858) was also a congressman.